Hail, Jackson
- When
- October 12, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County, Eldorado
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.588, -99.415 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in Oklahoma, October 12, 1993
9 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 9 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 9
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
9 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Oklahoma and Texas
- When
- October 12, 5:16 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma and Texas County, Hooker
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.552, -97.407 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A vigorous upper level trough combined with a well defined dryline over the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and developed into an active severe weather. The hail reports in Oklahoma were received by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the Hooker Police Department and a local TV Meteorologist.
Hail, Oklahoma and Texas
- When
- October 12, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Oklahoma and Texas County, Hooker
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.552, -97.407 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A vigorous upper level trough combined with a well defined dryline over the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and developed into an active severe weather. The hail reports in Oklahoma were received by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the Hooker Police Department and a local TV Meteorologist.
Hail, Grady
- When
- October 12, 6:08 PM CST
- Where
- Grady County, N Rush Springs
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.017, -97.884 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Stephens
- When
- October 12, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Stephens County, Marlow
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.486, -97.851 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Grady
- When
- October 12, 6:14 PM CST
- Where
- Grady County, Rush Springs
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.017, -97.884 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- October 12, 7:20 PM CST to 7:23 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County to Ringling
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.111, -97.836 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Carter
- When
- October 12, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County, Wilson
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.251, -97.286 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Love
- When
- October 12, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Love County, Rubottom
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.950, -97.244 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Severe thunderstorms in portions of the panhandle and southern Oklahoma during the evening hours on the 12th produced hail up to golf ball-size and damaging lightning. Dime-size hail covered the ground in Rush Springs and golf ball-size hail covered the ground two miles east of Rubottom. A lightning strike produced a hole in the roof of a house in Lone Grove. Lightning struck a tree in Ringling.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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: 10342070, 10340917, 10340918, 10342792, 10344855, 10342793, 10342153, 10339641, 10340732.