Whitharral, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Levelland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79380. The Survey maps it on the Whitharral quadrangle.

Whitharral within Hockley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Whitharral quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Whitharral between 2011 and 2016, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 January 2016	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	20160025
18 January 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3000 ATLANTA

Every fire recorded in Hockley County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitharral in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	$100,000	Several center pivot irrigation systems were destroyed and trees were uprooted.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm wind, which was estimated at around 80 mph by an NWS storm survey, snapped eight power poles.
May 2015	Flood	Whitharral	$10,000	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	$3,000	Emergency management in Hockley County reported that a power pole was blown over at the intersection of Mexico Road and US Highway 385 just south of Whitharral.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	$2,000	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Whitharral	$500	Golfball-size and larger hail was reported by the Hockley County Sheriff's Office in northern Hockley County. Only minor damage resulted.
April 2025	Hail	Whitharral	-	A photograph on social media depicted quarter size hail north of Whitharral along US Highway 385.
June 2025	Tornado (EF2)	Whitharral	-	An intense cyclic supercell thunderstorm produced a total of eight known tornadoes over portions of Cochran, Hockley, and Lubbock Counties. This was the fifth of the tornadoes. As the supercell thunderstorm approached US Highway 385 in north-central Hockley County it produced another strong tornado. This tornado crossed US Highway 385 approximately three miles north of Whitharral. The tornado destroyed several wooden power poles, rolled a semi-truck traveling on the highway, and damaged buildings and trees along its path before dissipating about seven miles east of the highway.
May 2024	Hail	Whitharral	-	A storm chaser reported golf ball size hail north of Whitharral along US Highway 385.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	-	Extensive wind damage to power poles were reported from Whitharral to Anton associated with the leading edge of a severe thunderstorm. The towns of Whitharral and Anton were reported to be without power due to the damage. Additionally, a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Anton measured severe wind gusts from 2348 CST through 0004 CST. A peak wind gust of 61 mph was measured at 2353 CST and again at 0001 CST.
May 2023	Hail	Whitharral	-	A spotter reported quarter size hail between Whitharral and Levelland along US Highway 385.
May 2022	Hail	Whitharral	-	A picture on social media showed hail ranging from quarter size to ping pong ball size to the southeast of Whitharral.
May 2021	Hail	Whitharral	-	An off duty NWS employee reported golf ball size hail a few miles to the southwest of Whitharral along US Highway 385.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	-	A trained weather spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 mph north of Whitharral along US Highway 385.
May 2019	Tornado (EFU)	Whitharral	-	Storm chasers reported a brief tornado in Hockley County. A storm survey was unable to be completed to due flooded roads.
May 2019	Hail	Whitharral	-	A picture on social media showed quarter size hail in Whitharral.
April 2012	Hail	Whitharral	-	An intense supercell produced a swath of significant hail from just north of Levelland southeast to north of Ropesville. Although most hail reports in this swath were baseball size or smaller, hail as large as softballs was observed near Smyer. An unknown amount of damage occurred to property in this hailswath.
June 2008	Hail	Whitharral	-	The Levelland Police Department reported golf ball size hail in Witharral. No damage was reported.
June 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Whitharral	-	Veteran storm chasers and Skywarn spotters observed at least one tornado as it intermittently developed, dissipated, and reformed over extreme southern Lamb County south of Littlefield. The tornado remained over open country east of U.S. Highway 385 and crossed into northern Hockley County at 21:40 CST. Eyewitness accounts describe that the tornado went through a Wizard of Oz-like phase when its movement was erratic as it roped out north of Whitharral. Radar data indicates that the tornado was associated with a deeply occluded mesocyclone within a weakening supercell storm.
June 2004	Hail	Whitharral	-	Several thousand acres of cotton were destroyed.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Whitharral	-	A storm spotter reported a tornado over open country.
October 2003	Hail	Whitharral	-	A storm chaser reported golfball size hail. Significant damage to cotton crops resulted from the hail.
May 2002	Hail	Whitharral	-	The Hockley County Sheriff's Office reported golfball size hail.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	-	Wind-driven small hail destroyed at least 200 acres of cotton.
May 2001	Hail	Whitharral	-	Amateur radio storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitharral	-	Strong wind blew down trees.
September 2003	Hail	Whitharral	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Whitharral	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Whitharral	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Whitharral	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Whitharral	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hockley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oklahoma Flat	5.2 miles	8
Anton	10.0 miles	9
Opdyke West	10.1 miles	8
Opdyke	10.3 miles	8
Levelland	10.7 miles	7
Pettit	10.8 miles	8
Roundup	12.3 miles	10
Pep	13.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1371465. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.