Hail, Potter
- When
- July 10, 5:18 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -101.680
Tornado and Hail in Texas, July 10, 1959
4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Hutchinson
- When
- July 10, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.650, -101.430
Hail, Carson
- When
- July 10, 5:33 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -101.580
Hail, Hutchinson
- When
- July 10, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -101.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Hutchinson
- When
- July 10, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -101.280
Hail, Potter
- When
- July 10, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -101.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Gray
- When
- July 10, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -100.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Donley
- When
- July 10, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Donley County
- Coordinates
- 34.780, -100.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Childress
- When
- July 10, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Childress County
- Coordinates
- 34.580, -100.400
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
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, July 10, 1959
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, July 10, 1959
- Tornadoes in Virginia, July 10, 1959
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 10, 1959
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 10, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 1959
- Hail in Iowa, July 10, 1959
- Hail in Minnesota, July 10, 1959
- Hail in Oklahoma, July 10, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 10, 1959
More
Every storm in Texas in 1959Every state in 1959This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1959
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: 10120789, 10120790, 10120791, 10120792, 10120793, 10120794, 10121005, 10121006, 10121007.