Hail, Jefferson
- When
- May 16, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -98.000
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 16, 1968
18 hail, 5 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 23
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
18 hail, 5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Carter
- When
- May 16, 1:45 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -97.500
Tornado, Carter
- When
- May 16, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -97.400
Hail, Marshall
- When
- May 16, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -96.900
Tornado, Love
- When
- May 16, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Love County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.070, -97.150
Hail, Marshall
- When
- May 16, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -96.780
Hail, Cotton
- When
- May 16, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cotton County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -98.580
Hail, Bryan
- When
- May 16, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Bryan County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -96.400
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- May 16, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -98.080
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- May 16, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.880, -97.900
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- May 16, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -97.580
Hail, Stephens
- When
- May 16, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Stephens County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.380, -98.080
Hail, Cotton
- When
- May 16, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cotton County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -98.180
Tornado, Cotton
- When
- May 16, 4:43 PM CST
- Where
- Cotton County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.180, -98.350
Hail, McCurtain
- When
- May 16, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -95.000
Tornado, Love
- When
- May 16, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Love County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.930, -97.200
Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- May 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.270, -97.580
Hail, Carter
- When
- May 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -97.580
Hail, Cotton
- When
- May 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cotton County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -98.180
Hail, Carter
- When
- May 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -97.000
Hail, Carter
- When
- May 16, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -97.000
Hail, Tulsa
- When
- May 16, 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Tulsa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -95.900
Hail, Texas
- When
- May 16, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Texas County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.780, -102.000
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 Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 16, 1968
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 16, 1968
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 16, 1968
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 16, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 16, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 16, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 16, 1968
- Hail in Georgia, May 16, 1968
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: 10094417, 10094418, 10094419, 10094420, 10094421, 10094422, 10094423, 10094424, 10094425, 10094426, 10094427, 10094428, 10094429, 10095011, 10095012, 10095013, 10095014, 10095015, 10095016, 10095017, 10095235, 10095236, 10095237.