Hail, Cherokee
- When
- March 30, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County, 5 mi S of Cookson
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.630, -94.970
Hail in Oklahoma, March 30, 1996
Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Oklahoma during the afternoon of March 30th. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a barn 1 mile west of Hulbert, and nickel size hail fell 1 mile south of Braggs.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS TSA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Oklahoma during the afternoon of March 30th. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a barn 1 mile west of Hulbert, and nickel size hail fell 1 mile south of Braggs. Dime to nickel size hail fell 10 miles southwest of Sapulpa, and dime size hail fell at several other locations in northeast Oklahoma.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
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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: 5564687.