Hail, Hale
- When
- May 24, 5:32 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -102.000
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 24, 1974
13 hail, 2 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
- 15
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
13 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Lubbock
- When
- May 24, 5:42 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.600, -102.050
Hail, Lubbock
- When
- May 24, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.670, -101.820
Hail, Lynn
- When
- May 24, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lynn County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -101.820
Tornado, Hale
- When
- May 24, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 8.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.870, -101.750
Hail, Dallam
- When
- May 24, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Dallam County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.180, -102.750
Hail, Hale
- When
- May 24, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.870, -101.600
Hail, Lynn
- When
- May 24, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lynn County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.130, -101.600
Hail, Oldham
- When
- May 24, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Oldham County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.270, -102.680
Hail, Oldham
- When
- May 24, 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Oldham County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.250, -102.430
Hail, Oldham
- When
- May 24, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Oldham County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -102.200
Hail, Potter
- When
- May 24, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -101.820
Hail, Armstrong
- When
- May 24, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Armstrong County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.180, -101.580
Tornado, Deaf Smith
- When
- May 24, 8:55 PM CST
- Where
- Deaf Smith County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.920, -102.450
Hail, Randall
- When
- May 24, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.950, -102.100
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: 10133693, 10133694, 10133695, 10133696, 10119859, 10119860, 10119861, 10119862, 10119863, 10119864, 10119865, 10119866, 10119867, 10119868, 10119869.