Hail, Floyd
- When
- May 7, 6:23 PM CST
- Where
- Floyd County, 4 mi WNW of Lockney
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.130, -101.500
Hail in Texas, May 7, 1997
Severe storms hit Floyd and Hale counties on the evening of the 7th. The Floyd County Sheriff's Office, the public, and tornado researchers reported large hail in and near Lockney.
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
- 4
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 LUB wrote it up.
Severe storms hit Floyd and Hale counties on the evening of the 7th. The Floyd County Sheriff's Office, the public, and tornado researchers reported large hail in and near Lockney. Also the public reported nickel-size hail near Cotton Center in Hale County.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:25 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hale
- When
- May 7, 6:24 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County, 2 mi E of Cotton Center
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -101.970
Hail, Floyd
- When
- May 7, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Floyd County, Lockney
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.120, -101.430
Hail, Floyd
- When
- May 7, 6:48 PM CST
- Where
- Floyd County, 1 mi E of Lockney
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.120, -101.420
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 7 to 8, 1997
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 7 to 26, 1997
- Tornado in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Cold in West Virginia, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, May 7, 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: 5603872, 5603873, 5603870, 5603871.