Texas storm reports for May 8, 2023

Name: NOAA storm reports, Texas, May 8, 2023
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 18 hail reports, 16 wind reports and 1 tornado report in Texas on May 8, 2023.

in Texas; 35
Storm reports: About 20 miles from Tyler, TX; 2.0 in
Largest hail: About 21 miles from Brownsville, TX; 89 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF0, about 17 miles from Beaumont, TX; 1
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; gust estimates from NOAA URMA; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
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 May 8, 2023 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. Gust lines are estimates: the highest gust of the day in NOAA's hourly 2.5 km wind analysis (URMA), which fills in between weather stations. They aren't measurements at any building.

Reports by hour

Hail18, most at 7 PM

Wind16, most at 1 AM

Tornado1, most at 3 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
3:00 PM	EF0	About 17 miles from Beaumont, TX	6.08 mi long, 75 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
3:15 PM	1.0 in	About 14 miles from Beaumont, TX
3:43 PM	1.0 in	About 58 miles from College Station, TX
5:00 PM	1.5 in	About 57 miles from Austin, TX
5:35 PM	1.0 in	About 54 miles from San Marcos, TX
5:56 PM	1.25 in	About 3 miles from Tomball, TX
6:00 PM	0.75 in	About 59 miles from San Marcos, TX
7:10 PM	0.88 in	About 5 miles from Killeen, TX
7:11 PM	0.75 in	About 21 miles from Houston, TX
7:15 PM	1.75 in	About 15 miles from Longview, TX
7:20 PM	0.88 in	About 20 miles from Tyler, TX
7:21 PM	1.75 in	About 20 miles from Killeen, TX
7:35 PM	2.0 in	About 20 miles from Tyler, TX

Show all 18 hail reports

Time	Size	Where
8:06 PM	1.25 in	About 27 miles from Killeen, TX
8:19 PM	1.0 in	About 35 miles from San Angelo, TX
8:20 PM	1.75 in	About 27 miles from Tyler, TX
8:23 PM	1.0 in	About 47 miles from Abilene, TX
8:50 PM	1.25 in	About 33 miles from Tyler, TX
9:31 PM	1.0 in	About 29 miles from San Antonio, TX

Time	Gust	Where
3:42 PM	58 mph	About 4 miles from Beaumont, TX
4:19 PM	59 mph	About 16 miles from Beaumont, TX
4:30 PM	58 mph	About 22 miles from Beaumont, TX
4:36 PM	58 mph	In Beaumont, TX
6:23 PM	58 mph	About 12 miles from Tomball, TX
6:40 PM	58 mph	About 14 miles from Houston, TX
9:30 PM	64 mph	Near 31.71, -99.13, TX
1:15 AM	64 mph	About 6 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:15 AM	60 mph	About 5 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:25 AM	60 mph	About 8 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:35 AM	66 mph	About 21 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:44 AM	75 mph	About 15 miles from Brownsville, TX

Show all 16 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
1:48 AM	89 mph	About 21 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:48 AM	60 mph	About 18 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:48 AM	60 mph	About 17 miles from Brownsville, TX
1:49 AM	89 mph	About 20 miles from Brownsville, TX

Cities with reports nearby

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

City	Largest hail	Highest gust
Tomball, TX	1.25 in	58 mph
Beaumont, TX	1.0 in	58 mph
Killeen, TX	0.88 in	None
Brownsville, TX	None	64 mph
Houston, TX	None	58 mph

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