Hail, Delaware
- When
- May 14, 5:30 AM CST
- Where
- Delaware County, 7 mi NE of Colcord
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.330, -94.600
Hail in Oklahoma, May 14, 1996
Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Oklahoma during the early morning of May 14th. Hail up to baseball size fell at Broken Arrow and at Bixby, and hail up to tennis ball size fell at Jenks.
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
- 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 early morning of May 14th. Hail up to baseball size fell at Broken Arrow and at Bixby, and hail up to tennis ball size fell at Jenks. Hail up to 2 inches in diameter fell at Glenpool, and hail up to golfball size fell in southern parts of the city of Tulsa. The hail covered the ground at spots in Glenpool and in the southern part of the city of Tulsa. Golfball size hail also fell at Oneta, 2 miles south of Bixby, and 4 miles northwest of Coweta, and quarter to golfball size hail fell 2 miles east of Bixby. Dime to quarter size hail fell at several other locations in northeast Oklahoma.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:30 UTC.
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.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 14, 1996
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- Lightning Strike in Idaho, May 14, 1996
- Drought in Arkansas, May 14 to 31, 1996
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 14 to 20, 1996
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, May 14, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, May 14, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, May 14, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 14 to 15, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 14, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 14, 1996
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: 5562913.