Hail, Ellis
- When
- May 6, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.470, -99.570
Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 6, 1985
14 hail, 1 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
- $25,000
- 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
14 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.430, -99.530
Hail, Harper
- When
- May 6, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.830, -99.620
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -99.400
Hail, Harper
- When
- May 6, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.830, -99.620
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.580, -99.570
Hail, Harper
- When
- May 6, 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -99.700
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.580, -99.570
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.530, -99.570
Hail, Harper
- When
- May 6, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.680, -99.620
Tornado, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 3 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.420, -99.530
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 10:13 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.430, -99.400
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 10:40 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.300, -99.580
Hail, Woodward
- When
- May 6, 11:22 PM CST
- Where
- Woodward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.430, -99.400
Hail, Ellis
- When
- May 6, 11:40 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -99.620
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
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1985Every state in 1985This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1985
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: 10106582, 10106583, 10106584, 10106585, 10106586, 10106587, 10106588, 10106589, 10106590, 10106591, 10106592, 10106593, 10106594, 10108102, 10108103.