Severe Storms and Possible Tornadoes/Damaging Hail Central Texas. Tornado Count Remains Low!
The third round of severe weather for Texas will hit today, this time centering on central Texas for damaging large hail and tornadoes. I overlaid the rotation tracks with my severe weather area so you can see where the greatest severe potential will occur.
Yesterday there were 20 reports of tornadoes with 5 of them reported across western Texas near Lubbock. Most of the tornado reports were from only 2-4 supercells that produce a family of tornadoes or the same tornado seen from different storm spotters, so most likely the number was much lower. We continue to see a low number of tornadoes this year with the number of tornadoes below the 25th percentile. I don’t see any major tornado outbreaks coming in the near future so that number will remain low through the end of May.
