Hail, Potter
- When
- July 24, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -101.820
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, July 24, 1979
3 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
- 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
3 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Potter
- When
- July 24, 4:21 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 4.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -101.820
Tornado, Hansford
- When
- July 24, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Hansford County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -101.170
Tornado, Hansford
- When
- July 24, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Hansford County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -101.170
Hail, Hansford
- When
- July 24, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Hansford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.270, -101.430
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
- Tornado in Florida, July 24, 1979
- Tornadoes in Michigan, July 24, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 24, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 24, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 24, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 24, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 24, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 24, 1979
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 24, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 24, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 24, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 24, 1979
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: 10128895, 10128896, 10128897, 10128898, 10128899.