Tornado, Texas
- When
- May 26, 2:16 PM CST to 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Texas County, Hooker to 4 mi W of Hooker
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -101.280
Tornado in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
Thunderstorms produced large hail, strong wind and two tornadoes. Large hail did over $100,000 damage to the roof of a school in Guymon.
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
- $10,000
- 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 AMA wrote it up.
Thunderstorms produced large hail, strong wind and two tornadoes. Large hail did over $100,000 damage to the roof of a school in Guymon. Strong winds blew a vehicle off the road. A tornado just south of Guymon caused only minor damage and the track is an estimate. Wind and hail combined for the remainder of the damage across the area.
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:13 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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 in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 26, 1996
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 26 to 27, 1996
- Tornadoes in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 26 to 31, 1996
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 1996Warnings in Oklahoma, May 1996
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: 5577339.