Hail, Midland
- When
- April 22, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Midland County, 3 mi N of Midland
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.050, -102.080
Hail in Texas, April 22, 1997
A shallow cold front had moved through the region during the previous night, but upslope low level flow into the south-central New Mexico mountains developed thunderstorms. A strong northwesterly flow in the mid levels sent a large storm quickly to the southeast.
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 MAF wrote it up.
A shallow cold front had moved through the region during the previous night, but upslope low level flow into the south-central New Mexico mountains developed thunderstorms. A strong northwesterly flow in the mid levels sent a large storm quickly to the southeast. Riding on top of the frontal inversion, the storm became very well organized with signs of very intense and sustained rotation. One brief unconfirmed funnel cloud was reported, but the cool layer of air near the surface apparently kept any rotations from lowering.
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:01 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
- Tornado in Alabama, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 22, 1997
- Tornadoes in Georgia, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, April 22, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 22, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, April 22, 1997
- Hail in Louisiana, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, April 22, 1997
- Tornado in South Carolina, April 22, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, April 22, 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: 5601500.