Hail, Payne
- When
- May 13, 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- Payne County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.170, -97.080
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 13, 1975
5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $325,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
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
5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Payne
- When
- May 13, 2:49 PM CST
- Where
- Payne County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 36.170, -97.080
Tornado, Oklahoma
- When
- May 13, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.400, -97.500
Hail, Comanche
- When
- May 13, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.620, -98.400
Tornado, Oklahoma
- When
- May 13, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -97.200
Tornado, Oklahoma
- When
- May 13, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -97.180
Hail, Pawnee
- When
- May 13, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.330, -96.800
Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln
- When
- May 13, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Coordinates
- 35.680, -97.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Payne
- When
- May 13, 4:38 PM CST
- Where
- Payne County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 35.950, -96.780
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- May 13, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.750, -96.880
Thunderstorm Wind, Creek
- When
- May 13, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Creek County
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -96.500
Hail, Tulsa
- When
- May 13, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Tulsa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -95.950
Hail, Pontotoc
- When
- May 13, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Pontotoc County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.800, -96.670
Thunderstorm Wind, Pontotoc
- When
- May 13, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Pontotoc County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 34.800, -96.670
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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: 10095558, 10095559, 10095560, 10095561, 10095562, 10095563, 10095564, 10095565, 10095566, 10095567, 10095568, 10095569, 10095570, 10095571.