Hail, Craig
- When
- December 9, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Craig County, 3 mi W of White Oak
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -95.320
Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, December 9, 1997
4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 5
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.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:48 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Craig
- When
- December 9, 5:59 PM CST
- Where
- Craig County, 3 mi W of White Oak
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -95.320
Hail, Delaware
- When
- December 9, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Delaware County, Bernice
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -94.920
Thunderstorm Wind, Delaware
- When
- December 9, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Delaware County, Bernice
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -94.920
Hail, Delaware
- When
- December 9, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Delaware County, Grove
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.580, -94.770
An isolated severe thunderstorm developed in southern Craig County of northeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon of December 9th and moved east into northern Delaware County. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour in Bernice, and dime size hail also fell at Bernice. Nickel size hail covered the ground at the Grove Airport, and dime to nickel size hail nearly covered the ground at White Oak.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hurricane in Guam, December 9 to 16, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Illinois, December 9 to 10, 1997
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Kansas, December 9 to 24, 1997
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, December 9, 1997
- Dense Fog in Illinois, December 9, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, December 9 to 10, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, December 9, 1997
- Dense Fog in Missouri, December 9, 1997
- Winter Storm in Missouri, December 9, 1997
- High Wind in California, December 9 to 11, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Illinois, December 9 to 10, 1997
- Dense Fog in Indiana, December 9, 1997
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: 5624397, 5624398, 5624461, 5624462, 5624620.