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Tornado Reports

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14:46Z EF0 KDFX TX La Salle Woodward Tornado touched down along Farm to Market Road 468 near the Dimmit County line. The tornado flipped an 18 wheeler then proceeded northeast about 5 miles. The tornado then crossed Farm to Market Road 469 and struck an oil hydraulic fracturing flow back site. The tornado flipped one RV trailer at the site. Two people inside the RV trailer sustained serious injuries. Both were released from the hospital the next day. The winds were estimated to be around 80 mph with this damage. The tornado proceeded northeast across open ranch land another 5 miles before dissipating.
17:40Z EF0 KCRP TX Kleberg Ricardo Kingsville Emergency Manager reported a brief tornado touched down in an open field about 4 miles west of Ricardo.
18:25Z EF0 KEWX TX Wilson Kosciusko Minor damage was reported along County Road 252 a few miles east of Highway 123. Tree damage was reported along with roofing material littered across the road. A Barn was destroyed just south of County Road 252.
18:46Z EF0 KCRP TX Live Oak Suniland Spotters reported a tornado briefly touched down to the south-southeast of Whitsett.
19:04Z EF0 KEWX TX Live Oak Whitsett Storm chasers observed a brief tornado just south of Whitsett. The tornado damaged large trees and a mobile home and uprooted a hay shed. This damage was observed just east of Highway 281 about a half of a mile southeast of Whitsett.
19:08Z EF0 KCRP TX Live Oak Suniland Storm Chasers observed a brief rope tornado on the ground for about 1 minute in an open field. No damage was observed.
19:20Z EF0 KCRP TX Live Oak Nell Spotters reported a tornado briefly touched down south of Nell.
20:56Z EF0 KCRP TX Bee Pawnee Storm chaser group observed a brief tornado about 3 miles southwest of Pawnee. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
20:58Z EF0 KCRP TX Bee Pawnee Storm Chaser group observed a cyclic tornadic supercell produce a brief second tornado about 1.5 miles west of Pawnee, immediately to the north of the previous tornado and from a second wall cloud. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
21:02Z EF0 KCRP TX Bee Pawnee Storm chaser group observed a third and slightly larger tornado touch down northwest of Pawnee. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
21:10Z EF0 KCRP TX Live Oak Three Rivers Storm chasers observed a brief tornado southwest of Three Rivers just south of Farm to Market Road 1042. The tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
22:30Z EF2 KGRK TX Colorado Weimar The tornado touched down near a railroad track producing a small area of EF-2 damage when boxcars of a parked train were overturned. The tornado tracked toward the north northeast across a cemetery. Extensive tree damage occurred with numerous large trees snapped and debris deposited in different directions. The tornado then continued onto the grounds of Weimar High School where the press box of the football field was destroyed, stadium light poles were snapped, and a metal storage building was damaged. Eight injuries were reported, most of them occurring when a food service truck was overturned in the school parking lot.
00:14Z EF0 KCRP TX Live Oak Clegg Storm chasers and spotters observed a tornado south of Clegg. The tornado touched down over open ranch country. No damage was observed.
01:45Z EF0 KCRP TX Live Oak Lagarteo Several residents reported a tornado briefly touching down southwest of Lagarto. No damage was reported.
03:20Z EF0 KCRP TX Nueces (crp)corpus Christi Tornado touched down in an open farm field 2 miles southeast of Corpus Christi International Airport. The tornado traveled southeast snapping utility poles in front of Clear Channel radio station. It then crossed Old Brownsville Road and destroyed a small RV trailer and damaged a metal building in an adjacent lot.
03:30Z EF1 KCRP TX San Patricio Sodville NWS storm survey indicated a tornado touched down 5 miles west northwest of Taft along Highway 181. The tornado struck and collapsed a grain elevator. The tornado crossed Highway 181 knocking over a utility pole and caused tree damage. The tornado snapped 3 utility poles as it crossed County Road 73 about 1 mile north of Taft. The tornado continued for another couple of miles passing through a subdivision near the intersection of County Road 98 and County Roads 77A and 77B, about 3 miles north northeast of Taft. An 18 wheeler was flipped. Large trees were snapped and nearly 20 homes were damaged in that subdivision. The tornado dissipated in a field northeast of the subdivision. Maximum winds were estimated to be around 90 mph.
03:52Z EF0 KCRP TX Refugio Bonnie View NWS storm survey concluded a tornado touched down in an open field just east of Levien Road. The tornado traveled east crossing Gin Road where it snapped 5 utility poles and blew the roof off of a shed. The tornado dissipated before crossing Farm to Market Road 136 north of Bayside.
04:17Z EF0 KCRP TX Aransas Holiday Beach NWS storm survey concluded a weak tornado touched down in rural Aransas County northeast of Holiday Beach. The tornado crossed Highway 35 snapping one telephone pole.
04:59Z EF0 KCRP TX Jim Hogg Randado Jim Hogg County Sheriff's Office reported tornado briefly touched down at the intersection of Highway 16 and FM 649 in the vicinity of Randado.
08:15Z EF0 KBRO TX Cameron San Benito Muni Arpt A mini-supercell thunderstorms dropped a very brief tornado, containing estimated 80 mph winds (high end EF0 on the Fujita Scale) on top of a single family home, causing considerable damage to property at the well built structure. Damage included: four sections of cyclone fence bent in different directions around the home; a boat and trailer flipped over, numerous snapped tree limbs in different directions, and other limbs that came from an undetermined tree, barrel-tile roof shingles lifted off, one broken window, and a damaged carport. Unusual was the singular nature of the damage - striking only this property - with one of the shortest track lengths (a tenth of a mile) one would see on survey.

Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).