Hail, Palo Pinto
- When
- September 20, 2:25 PM CST
- Where
- Palo Pinto County, 7 mi NW of Santo
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.670, -98.300
Hail in Texas, September 20, 1996
The cool front that became stationary across the southern zones late on the 19th, returned northward on the 20th in response to a strong upper level disturbance approaching the southern plains. Scattered to widespread thunderstorms developed and moved eastward across the southern zones of northern Texas producing large hail, damaging wind gusts, and two tornadoes.
Where it happened
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- 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 FWD wrote it up.
The cool front that became stationary across the southern zones late on the 19th, returned northward on the 20th in response to a strong upper level disturbance approaching the southern plains. Scattered to widespread thunderstorms developed and moved eastward across the southern zones of northern Texas producing large hail, damaging wind gusts, and two tornadoes. Other severe thunderstorms developed along an outflow boundary in southern Oklahoma and moved across the Red River producing severe weather in the extreme northern counties of Texas. These severe storms, a few of which were supercell thunderstorms, produced hail to baseball size, damaging wind gusts, heavy rain resulting in flash flooding and a damaging tornado.
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:24 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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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: 5564155.