Hail, Kay
- When
- April 24, 7:08 PM CST
- Where
- Kay County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.700, -97.080
Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 24, 1961
2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Osage
- When
- April 24, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -96.930
Hail, Osage
- When
- April 24, 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.700, -96.580
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.
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: 10091813, 10091814, 10091815.