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The chance of earthquake damage in 76372 Zip Code is about the same as Texas average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in 76372 Zip Code is lower than Texas average and is higher than the national average.

Topics:Earthquake IndexVolcano IndexTornado IndexOther Weather Extremes EventsVolcanos NearbyHistorical Earthquake EventsHistorical Tornado Events

Earthquake Index, #1630

76372 Zip Code
0.00
Texas
0.04
U.S.
1.81

The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.

Volcano Index, #1

76372 Zip Code
0.0000
Texas
0.0000
U.S.
0.0023

The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.

Tornado Index, #1522

76372 Zip Code
176.91
Texas
208.58
U.S.
136.45

The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.

Other Weather Extremes Events

A total of 2,588 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of 76372 Zip Code were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:

TypeCountTypeCountTypeCountTypeCountTypeCount
Avalanche:0Blizzard:1Cold:4Dense Fog:0Drought:27
Dust Storm:1Flood:150Hail:1,722Heat:5Heavy Snow:6
High Surf:0Hurricane:0Ice Storm:6Landslide:0Strong Wind:8
Thunderstorm Winds:615Tropical Storm:0Wildfire:3Winter Storm:11Winter Weather:11
Other:18 

Volcanos Nearby

No volcano is found in or near 76372 Zip Code.

Historical Earthquake Events

No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near 76372 Zip Code.

No historical earthquake events found in or near 76372 Zip Code.

Historical Tornado Events

A total of 56 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near 76372 Zip Code.

Distance (miles)DateMagnitudeStart Lat/LogEnd Lat/LogLengthWidthFatalitiesInjuriesProperty DamageCrop DamageAffected County
2.61985-04-21333°15'N / 98°59'W33°17'N / 98°57'W3.00 Miles400 Yards00250K0Young
3.91985-04-21333°14'N / 99°00'W33°15'N / 98°59'W1.50 Miles400 Yards30250K0Throckmorton
6.21994-05-29333°20'N / 98°49'W33°14'N / 98°50'W7.00 Miles600 Yards005K0Young
 Brief Description: A large tornado was video-taped by storm chasers. The tornado was on the ground for 20 minutes and moved south-southeast across open ranch land with the only known damage being to a garage and an oil storage tank.
6.91979-06-06233°12'N / 98°53'W33°13'N / 98°45'W7.90 Miles200 Yards0025K0Young
10.51985-04-21233°23'N / 98°55'W33°25'N / 98°52'W2.80 Miles300 Yards02250K0Young
12.22000-04-30333°22'N / 98°46'W33°22'N / 98°46'W13.00 Miles800 Yards00300K0Young
 Brief Description: A large tornado was reported from near the county line (between Elbert and Padgett) to east of Olney. A 100 year old home was completely destroyed one mile south of the Olney Airport. A total of three homes and two motor homes were destroyed. Damage was reported to a nursing home, barns, power lines and trees. Most of the damage, however, occurred in open country. April 30, 2000 - Event Narrative A big day for severe weather across northwest portions of the area. Several outflow boundaries, a dryline, and moist unstable air all helped contribute to thunderstorm development. There were several rounds of thunderstorms, the first wave was in the early morning hours, from about 3 am to 5 am. This activity developed in Young and Palo Pinto counties and moved eastward to affect Parker, Jack, Wise and Tarrant counties. Another event developed in the early evening, generally north and west of a Dallas, Glen Rose, Eastland line. Most of the activity was centered on Young, Jack, and Stephens county. A large tornado occurred near Olney (Young County) during this event. A continuation of aa tornado that began in Throckmorton county.
12.31985-04-21233°25'N / 98°52'W33°25'N / 98°50'W2.20 Miles300 Yards00250K0Archer
15.31951-05-18433°25'N / 98°45'W2.00 Miles200 Yards21002.5M0Young
15.61955-09-25233°26'N / 98°46'W1.00 Mile50 Yards0025K0Young
16.71958-11-17233°23'N / 98°46'W33°28'N / 98°41'W7.60 Miles133 Yards01250K0Young
18.61963-04-28232°59'N / 98°58'W000K0Camp
20.11976-04-15233°07'N / 98°37'W2.00 Miles33 Yards00250K0Young
20.91966-04-10233°21'N / 98°35'W1.00 Mile133 Yards000K0Young
21.21979-06-06333°13'N / 98°37'W33°15'N / 98°30'W7.10 Miles400 Yards02250K0Young
21.21979-10-30233°03'N / 98°38'W33°19'N / 98°30'W20.00 Miles77 Yards05250K0Young
21.32002-04-07233°11'N / 99°20'W33°14'N / 99°15'W7.00 Miles1500 Yards0010K0Throckmorton
 Brief Description: Immediately after the first tornado dissipated, a second larger, more stable multiple vortex tornado developed. Tracking along a 7 mile long path across western Throckmorton County, this tornado would reach over three quarters of a mile wide. Fortunately, the tornado tracked largely over open county and damage was minimal for a tornado of this size. Partially buried fence posts were torn out of the ground and disappeared, while a 300 yard path was swept clean and a large mesquite tree was ripped out of the ground. Severe thunderstorms rolled across much of West Central Texas during the afternoon and evening hours of the 7th. Two supercells produced a total of 5 tornadoes, 3 across the northern Big Country in Throckmorton County and 2 more across the Northern Edwards Plateau in Crockett County. Although one of the tornadoes in Throckmorton was about three quarters of a mile wide and stayed on the ground for 16 minutes, it fortunately crossed open farmland, striking no homes were causing no injuries. Damage was more extensive with the southern supercell, with tennis ball size hail causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage to several ranch houses in eastern Crockett County. Other storms produced hail up to golf ball size across parts of the Concho Valley and Heartland.
21.51974-06-04233°06'N / 98°36'W1.00 Mile467 Yards000K0Young
22.31976-04-15233°06'N / 98°35'W2.00 Miles33 Yards00250K0Young
23.41976-04-15233°26'N / 99°16'W0.10 Mile33 Yards000K0Baylor
24.11970-04-25233°03'N / 98°35'W0.50 Mile33 Yards003K0Young
26.21955-04-05232°59'N / 99°29'W33°02'N / 99°04'W24.40 Miles67 Yards03250K0Throckmorton
28.61979-10-30233°19'N / 98°30'W33°25'N / 98°24'W9.10 Miles77 Yards00250K0Jack
29.41961-04-08333°36'N / 98°38'W1.00 Mile33 Yards010K0Archer
29.61980-04-02433°36'N / 99°11'W33°41'N / 99°05'W8.40 Miles250 Yards000K0Baylor
29.61986-05-14333°32'N / 98°42'W33°34'N / 98°25'W11.00 Miles250 Yards042.5M0Archer
30.11957-08-12233°26'N / 99°24'W0.40 Mile100 Yards0025K0Baylor
33.01979-04-10233°37'N / 99°18'W33°42'N / 99°09'W10.40 Miles300 Yards0025K0Baylor
34.71975-06-08232°59'N / 98°25'W000K0Palo Pinto
36.81955-04-06333°26'N / 98°24'W33°28'N / 98°16'W8.20 Miles33 Yards00250K0Jack
37.21971-07-06233°36'N / 99°25'W0.30 Mile10 Yards0125K0Baylor
37.61979-10-30332°37'N / 98°59'W32°48'N / 98°45'W18.60 Miles127 Yards002.5M0Stephens
38.01957-10-07233°37'N / 99°25'W2.00 Miles33 Yards003K0Baylor
39.21980-08-23232°55'N / 99°26'W32°52'N / 99°28'W4.30 Miles73 Yards00250K0Palo Pinto
41.21994-02-19232°55'N / 99°31'W0.10 Mile10 Yards0000Shackelford
 Brief Description: A brief tornado formed in open country on the Nail Ranch.
41.31986-05-14333°34'N / 98°25'W33°34'N / 98°13'W9.00 Miles250 Yards002.5M0Clay
41.51971-05-04233°25'N / 99°37'W2.00 Miles50 Yards000K0Knox
41.62004-03-04233°05'N / 99°37'W33°05'N / 99°37'W1.00 Mile440 Yards00100K0Haskell
 Brief Description: Numerous manufactured homes were damaged or destroyed by the tornado along Lake Stamford. A strong upper level disturbance combined with a strong surface low pressure system moving across West Central Texas produced a significant squall line that moved through the entire San Angelo county warning area. This squall line was accompanied by 60 to 80 MPH winds which produced widespread damage, especially across the Big Country. Embedded within the squall line, were several Supercell thunderstorms which produced nine tornadoes within the San Angelo county warning area.
41.82005-05-13333°38'N / 99°38'W33°29'N / 99°28'W16.00 Miles1000 Yards0000Knox
 Brief Description: The tornado began in Knox County and traveled just over 16 miles, eventually moving into Baylor County for less than a half a mile before dissipating 3.3 miles SW of Bomarton. The storm was being seeded by precipitation from another supercell just to its southwest and the tornado was apparently rain-wrapped throughout its duration. However mobile research radars, Doppler on Wheels (DOW), were able to track this tornado. The initial path of the tornado was to the south-southwest crossing U.S. Highway 82. The tornado then generally moved to the southeast for the rest of its life. This tornado moved through sparsely populated areas with no reported damage. Preliminary analysis of data from the Doppler On Wheels indicated a maximum wind velocity of 79 m/s (about 177 mph) at 30 m above ground level which was measured at 1829 CST when the tornado was in open country about 6 miles south of Vera.
41.92003-05-03233°04'N / 99°38'W33°07'N / 99°37'W4.00 Miles440 Yards0010K0Haskell
 Brief Description: Spotters watched a large one quarter mile wide tornado that moved across the northeast portion of lake Stamford. This tornado came within yards of hitting the lake Stamford power plant, however it did knock down 11 transmission poles coming out of the power plant and eight distribution poles. This tornado was also filmed by a weather broadcaster from a local Abilene television station. An isolated severe thunderstorm formed along the dry line in the late afternoon in Dickens County. This thunderstorm split into two different cells with one going northeast into Oklahoma and the other moving almost due east across Stonewall, Haskell and Eastern Throckmorton Counties. As the thunderstorm was over eastern Stonewall County, it begin to take on tornadic radar signatures and continued to intensify as it moved into Haskell County. During it's two hour trek across Haskell County, it produced at least four tornadoes. Right after the storm crossed over into Throckmorton County it weakened rapidly and eventually dissipated over the southeastern portion of Throckmorton County.
42.51961-05-07332°56'N / 99°35'W32°58'N / 99°33'W3.60 Miles133 Yards00250K0Shackelford
42.91979-04-10433°49'N / 98°39'W33°50'N / 98°38'W1.30 Miles880 Yards003K0Archer
43.01958-11-17233°19'N / 99°40'W1.00 Mile33 Yards07250K0Haskell
43.71962-05-26433°10'N / 99°46'W33°10'N / 99°35'W10.70 Miles133 Yards012.5M0Haskell
44.91955-04-05232°57'N / 99°46'W32°59'N / 99°29'W16.60 Miles67 Yards00250K0Haskell
45.21969-08-22233°32'N / 99°38'W0.30 Mile67 Yards00250K0Knox
45.41958-08-20233°38'N / 99°34'W1.00 Mile50 Yards013K0Knox
45.61976-06-23233°23'N / 99°42'W0.80 Mile440 Yards0025K0Knox
46.21954-06-01233°38'N / 99°35'W33°39'N / 99°34'W1.90 Miles133 Yards000K0Knox
47.01991-04-24333°09'N / 99°46'W33°12'N / 99°42'W3.50 Miles200 Yards01250K0Haskell
47.21955-04-06333°28'N / 98°16'W33°28'N / 98°02'W13.50 Miles33 Yards00250K0Clay
47.21963-04-05233°09'N / 99°44'W1.00 Mile33 Yards003K0Haskell
47.61979-05-21332°34'N / 98°49'W2.00 Miles1320 Yards000K0Stephens
48.61951-05-09233°56'N / 98°41'W33°56'N / 98°46'W4.90 Miles33 Yards0025K0Wichita
48.71979-04-10433°50'N / 98°38'W33°55'N / 98°26'W12.90 Miles1760 Yards421700250.0M0Wichita
48.91962-05-26233°10'N / 99°46'W1.00 Mile67 Yards000K0Haskell
49.91954-05-01233°33'N / 98°09'W33°34'N / 98°08'W1.30 Miles67 Yards000K0Clay


* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.


 
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