Texas storm reports for February 18, 2013

Name: NOAA storm reports, Texas, February 18, 2013
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 5 hail reports and 14 tornado reports in Texas on February 18, 2013.

in Texas; 19
Storm reports: About 52 miles from Longview, TX; 1.75 in
Largest hail: Highest rating EF1, about 34 miles from Conroe, TX; 14
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on February 18, 2013 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Hail5, most at 5 PM

Tornado14, most at 6 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
2:03 PM	EF1	About 34 miles from Conroe, TX	0.57 mi long, 30 yd wide
5:13 PM	EF0	About 15 miles from Longview, TX	0.73 mi long, 30 yd wide
5:18 PM	EF0	About 14 miles from Longview, TX	0.01 mi long, 20 yd wide
5:27 PM	EF0	About 31 miles from Tyler, TX	1.23 mi long, 15 yd wide
5:27 PM	EF0	About 16 miles from Longview, TX	1.55 mi long, 30 yd wide
5:48 PM	EF1	About 38 miles from Longview, TX	1.97 mi long, 60 yd wide
5:57 PM	EF0	About 25 miles from Longview, TX	1.2 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:01 PM	EF0	About 39 miles from Longview, TX	0.01 mi long, 10 yd wide
6:05 PM	EF0	About 29 miles from Longview, TX	0.81 mi long, 30 yd wide
6:12 PM	EF0	About 42 miles from Longview, TX	0.01 mi long, 20 yd wide
6:13 PM	EF0	About 31 miles from Shreveport, LA	0.01 mi long, 10 yd wide
6:19 PM	EF1	About 43 miles from Longview, TX	0.01 mi long, 20 yd wide
6:19 PM	EF0	About 30 miles from Shreveport, LA	0.01 mi long, 20 yd wide
6:37 PM	EF0	About 47 miles from Longview, TX	0.01 mi long, 10 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
2:39 PM	1.75 in	About 52 miles from Longview, TX
3:10 PM	1.25 in	About 57 miles from Shreveport, LA
5:28 PM	0.75 in	About 29 miles from Longview, TX
5:33 PM	1.0 in	About 13 miles from Longview, TX
6:25 PM	1.0 in	About 24 miles from Shreveport, LA

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Longview, TX	1.0 in	None	2

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.