Hail, Beckham
- When
- May 16, 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Beckham County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -99.420
Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 16, 1982
6 hail, 6 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $2.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 17
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
6 hail, 6 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Beckham
- When
- May 16, 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Beckham County
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -99.420
Tornado, Beckham
- When
- May 16, 6:45 AM CST
- Where
- Beckham County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.430, -99.430
Hail, Beckham
- When
- May 16, 6:45 AM CST
- Where
- Beckham County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -99.420
Tornado, Kingfisher
- When
- May 16, 8:45 AM CST
- Where
- Kingfisher County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.120, -97.980
Tornado, Kingfisher
- When
- May 16, 9:39 AM CST
- Where
- Kingfisher County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -97.870
Tornado, Logan
- When
- May 16, 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 36.020, -97.420
Tornado, Woods
- When
- May 16, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Woods County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.500, -98.750
Thunderstorm Wind, Garfield
- When
- May 16, 7:07 PM CST
- Where
- Garfield County
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Coordinates
- 36.330, -97.900
Hail, Garfield
- When
- May 16, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Garfield County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.330, -97.900
Tornado, Comanche
- When
- May 16, 8:55 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 34.600, -98.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Comanche
- When
- May 16, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 34.620, -98.400
Hail, Comanche
- When
- May 16, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.630, -98.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Pottawatomie
- When
- May 16, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Coordinates
- 35.330, -96.920
Thunderstorm Wind, Comanche
- When
- May 16, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County
- Coordinates
- 34.620, -98.400
Hail, Pottawatomie
- When
- May 16, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.980, -96.920
Hail, Pontotoc
- When
- May 16, 11:40 PM CST
- Where
- Pontotoc County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.650, -96.520
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 16, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, May 16, 1982
- Tornado in Colorado, May 16, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 16, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 16, 1982
- Hail in Arkansas, May 16, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, May 16, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 16, 1982
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: 10105624, 10105625, 10105626, 10105627, 10105628, 10105629, 10105630, 10105631, 10105632, 10105633, 10105634, 10105635, 10105636, 10105637, 10105638, 10105639, 10105640.