Storm reports for March 25, 2005

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On March 25, 2005, 53 hail, 11 damaging-wind and 2 tornado reports were logged across 3 states. The largest hail reported was 2.50″ (tennis ball size) in Blanco County, TX.

Storm day runs 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. Eastern (12:00–12:00 UTC), the convention the Storm Prediction Center uses. Radar hail estimates start October 2019.

Storm reports by state

Cities with hail reported within 5 miles

Hail reports (53)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $100 million in property damage from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (66 events in 3 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Travis County, TX (near Lago Vista) · Hail 2.00″ · $100 million
  “On the evening of March 25, the most destructive hailstorm in ten years struck the greater Austin Area. The total damage to homes, vehicles, businesses and property has been estimated at over $100 million.”
• Travis County, TX (near Manor) · Tornado F1 · $100,000
  “An NWS survey showed that the general area from near the town of Manor, across the community of Littig, to approximately 4 miles southwest of Elgin had been struck by a combination of severe thunderstorm winds, rain and hail.”
• Bastrop County, TX (near Elgin) · Tornado F0 · $40,000
  “A second tornado descended from the same south end of the line of thunderstorms that had produced the Littig tornado. This touchdown was around 2 miles east of Littig, in Bastrop County, where the Old Shiloh Baptist Church and the new Shiloh Baptist Church both sustained considerable exterior and…”
• Reagan County, TX (near Stiles) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $1,000
  “A rural resident north of Stiles reported 60 MPH gusts from a severe thunderstorm that blew open and slightly damaged the door on a large barn.”
• Kimble County, TX (near London) · Hail 1.75″ · $1,000
  “Golfball size hail was reported near London.”
• Bastrop County, TX (near Elgin) · Thunderstorm wind 69 mph
  “As the severe line of thunderstorms moved eastward, they produced winds that uprooted trees both to the east and the west of SH95, south of the town of Elgin.”

Event narratives from NWS Storm Data, shortened. Up to six per day, chosen by deaths, injuries, damage and size.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Storm Events Database, as entered by National Weather Service offices; data through July 31, 2026. Damage is in dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation.

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