Hail, Motley
- When
- June 4, 9:30 PM CST to 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Motley County, 5 mi N of Matador
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -100.820
Hail in Texas, June 4, 1996
High winds uprooted a few trees, blew down fences, and heavily damaged one structure in Memphis. The public reported large tree limbs blown down at Carey in Childress County, and up to golfball-size hail at Turkey in Hall County.
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.
High winds uprooted a few trees, blew down fences, and heavily damaged one structure in Memphis. The public reported large tree limbs blown down at Carey in Childress County, and up to golfball-size hail at Turkey in Hall County. Large hail was also reported in Flomot and north of Matador, though apparently no damage resulted.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:31 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
- Flooding in Montana, June 4 to 14, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 4, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 4, 1996
- Tornado in Maryland, June 4, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 4, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 4, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 4, 1996
- Lightning Strike in West Virginia, June 4, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 4, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, June 4, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 4, 1996
- Hail in Texas, June 4, 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: 5579778.