Hail, Stonewall
- When
- May 26, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Stonewall County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.000, -100.400
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 26, 1962
4 hail, 4 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 26, 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Measured
- 4.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.200, -99.680
Hail, Stonewall
- When
- May 26, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Stonewall County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.080, -100.180
Tornado, Haskell
- When
- May 26, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.770
Tornado, Haskell
- When
- May 26, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 67 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.770
Tornado, Haskell
- When
- May 26, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 10.7 mi
- Path width
- 133 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.770
Tornado, Stonewall
- When
- May 26, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stonewall County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9.1 mi
- Path width
- 133 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.970, -100.300
Hail, Wichita
- When
- May 26, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -98.500
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 26, 1962
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 26, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, May 26, 1962
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, May 26, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, May 26, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, May 26, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 26, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 26, 1962
- Hail in Colorado, May 26, 1962
- Tornado in Kentucky, May 26, 1962
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 26, 1962
More
Every storm in Texas in 1962Every state in 1962This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1962
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: 10119276, 10119277, 10119278, 10119279, 10119280, 10119281, 10119282, 10119283.