Hail in Texas, May 28, 1997

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.

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 225 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:25 UTC.

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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.

• Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 28, 1997$27 million · 2.5 in hail · 2 events
• Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 28, 19971 death · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Arkansas, May 28, 1997$135,000 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 28, 1997$104,000 · 1.75 in hail · 5 events
• Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, May 28, 1997$102,000 · 2.75 in hail · 3 events
• Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 28, 1997$50,000 · 4 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 28, 1997$26,000 · 0.88 in hail · 3 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 1997$5,000 · 2 in hail · 16 events
• Damaging Wind in Florida, May 28, 1997$20,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in New Mexico, May 28, 1997$20,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 28, 19971 injured · $5,000 · 1.5 in hail · 4 events
• Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 28, 1997F0 · 9 events

Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 1997

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: 5611548.