Hail, Canadian
- When
- April 28, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Canadian County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -98.080
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 28, 1956
11 hail, 5 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $6,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 18
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
11 hail, 5 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Grady
- When
- April 28, 2:05 PM CST
- Where
- Grady County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.000, -98.080
Tornado, Grady
- When
- April 28, 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Grady County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 34.970, -97.930
Hail, Cleveland
- When
- April 28, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Cleveland County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -97.580
Tornado, Cleveland
- When
- April 28, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cleveland County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 34.1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 34.980, -97.920
Hail, Cleveland
- When
- April 28, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cleveland County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -97.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Cleveland
- When
- April 28, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cleveland County
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -97.180
Hail, Pottawatomie
- When
- April 28, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.380, -97.080
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- April 28, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.500, -96.900
Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- April 28, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.170, -97.850
Hail, Grady
- When
- April 28, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grady County
- Measured
- 3.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.700, -98.000
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- April 28, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -98.000
Hail, Oklahoma
- When
- April 28, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.500, -97.280
Hail, McClain
- When
- April 28, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- McClain County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -97.400
Tornado, Seminole
- When
- April 28, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Seminole County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.930, -96.750
Hail, Creek
- When
- April 28, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Creek County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.780, -96.400
Tornado, Bryan
- When
- April 28, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bryan County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 27.9 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.130, -96.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Sequoyah
- When
- April 28, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sequoyah County
- Coordinates
- 35.500, -94.780
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10093742, 10093743, 10093744, 10093745, 10093746, 10093747, 10093748, 10093749, 10093750, 10093751, 10093752, 10093753, 10093754, 10093755, 10093756, 10093757, 10093758, 10093759.