Texas storm reports for March 18, 2020

Name: NOAA storm reports, Texas, March 18, 2020
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 9 hail reports, 13 wind reports and 10 tornado reports in Texas on March 18, 2020.

in Texas; 32
Storm reports: About 11 miles from Lubbock, TX; 2.25 in
Largest hail: Near 33.02, -98.50, TX; 81 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF2, about 30 miles from Abilene, TX; 10
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path
Surveyed wind damage

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.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path
Surveyed wind damage

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on March 18, 2020 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

Hail9, most at 6 PM

Wind13, most at 9 PM

Tornado10, most at 9 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
8:56 PM	EF0	About 48 miles from Fort Worth, TX	1.82 mi long, 55 yd wide
9:04 PM	EF0	About 58 miles from Abilene, TX	1.52 mi long, 12 yd wide
9:20 PM	EF0	About 44 miles from Denton, TX	4.02 mi long, 575 yd wide
9:24 PM	EF0	Near 33.00, -98.67, TX	5.19 mi long, 375 yd wide
9:36 PM	EF0	Near 33.04, -98.55, TX	1.55 mi long, 120 yd wide
10:07 PM	EF0	About 31 miles from Denton, TX	0.81 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:21 PM	EF0	About 53 miles from Wichita Falls, TX	0.67 mi long, 46 yd wide
1:00 AM	EF2	About 30 miles from Abilene, TX	10.86 mi long, 425 yd wide
1:30 AM	EF1	About 8 miles from Abilene, TX	0.23 mi long, 35 yd wide
1:43 AM	EF2	About 7 miles from Abilene, TX	5.38 mi long, 135 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
5:29 PM	2.25 in	About 11 miles from Lubbock, TX
6:00 PM	1.75 in	Near 34.42, -100.19, TX
6:13 PM	1.75 in	About 25 miles from Abilene, TX
6:20 PM	1.25 in	About 6 miles from Lubbock, TX
6:48 PM	1.0 in	Near 34.86, -100.12, TX
1:24 AM	2.0 in	About 8 miles from Abilene, TX
2:14 AM	1.75 in	Near 29.51, -101.05, TX
3:10 AM	1.0 in	Near 29.79, -100.42, TX
3:30 AM	1.0 in	Near 29.90, -100.11, TX

Time	Gust	Where
5:38 PM	62 mph	About 4 miles from Abilene, TX
5:55 PM	58 mph	About 39 miles from Midland, TX
8:55 PM	70 mph	About 52 miles from Fort Worth, TX
9:36 PM	58 mph	About 39 miles from Denton, TX
9:41 PM	81 mph	Near 33.02, -98.50, TX
9:44 PM	74 mph	About 36 miles from Denton, TX
10:00 PM	81 mph	About 33 miles from Denton, TX
11:00 PM	60 mph	About 32 miles from Denton, TX
12:25 AM	64 mph	About 20 miles from Denton, TX
12:50 AM	49 mph	About 35 miles from McKinney, TX
2:26 AM	60 mph	Near 29.48, -100.94, TX
3:20 AM	60 mph	About 56 miles from Wichita Falls, TX
3:47 AM	58 mph	About 57 miles from Fort Worth, TX

Cities with reports nearby

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

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Lubbock, TX	2.25 in	None	0
Abilene, TX	2.0 in	62 mph	2

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