Hail, Payne
- When
- May 25, 12:35 AM CST
- Where
- Payne County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -96.780
Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 25, 1968
4 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Sequoyah
- When
- May 25, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Sequoyah County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.450, -94.800
Hail, Sequoyah
- When
- May 25, 9:10 AM CST
- Where
- Sequoyah County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.500, -94.780
Hail, Ellis
- When
- May 25, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -99.680
Hail, McCurtain
- When
- May 25, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- McCurtain County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -95.080
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 Texas, May 25, 1968
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 25, 1968
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 25, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 25, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 25, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 25, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 25, 1968
- Hail in Colorado, May 25, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 25, 1968
- Hail in Indiana, May 25, 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: 10095260, 10095261, 10095262, 10095263, 10095264.