Hail, King
- When
- June 18, 9:01 PM CST to 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- King County, 1 mi S of Finney
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.770, -100.380
Hail in Texas, June 18, 1996
Strong winds swept across Childress, crushing a porch, tearing a roof from a building, and tearing limbs from trees. The sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in Quitaque.
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 LUB wrote it up.
Strong winds swept across Childress, crushing a porch, tearing a roof from a building, and tearing limbs from trees. The sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in Quitaque. The King County Sheriff's Office reported dime- and golfball-size hail in the northern part of the county.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:01 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
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 18, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 18 to 30, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 18 to 20, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Tropical Storm in North Carolina, June 18 to 19, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Tropical Storm in North Carolina, June 18 to 19, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Maryland, June 18 to 19, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, June 18, 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: 5579804.