Hail, Cherokee
- When
- May 26, 7:09 PM CST to 7:29 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County, Faulkner to Baxter Spgs
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $60,000
- Crop damage
- $30,000
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -95.020
Hail in Kansas, May 26, 1997
Golfball size hail fell in a four mile wide, ten mile long path from near Faulkner to Baxter Springs in the southern part of the county. Hail caused damage to roofs and windows to about 30 farmsteads and affected about 4000 acres of wheat, 300 acres of corn and 300 acres of beans.
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
- $60,000
- Crop damage
- $30,000
- 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 SGF wrote it up.
Golfball size hail fell in a four mile wide, ten mile long path from near Faulkner to Baxter Springs in the southern part of the county. Hail caused damage to roofs and windows to about 30 farmsteads and affected about 4000 acres of wheat, 300 acres of corn and 300 acres of beans.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:06 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 26, 1997
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 26, 1997
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Arkansas, May 26 to 27, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 26 to 27, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 26, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, May 26, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, May 26, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in Missouri, May 26, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 26, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 26, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 26, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 26, 1997
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, May 1997
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: 5600932.