Hail, Carson
- When
- May 7, 6:22 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County, 8 mi W of Mc Bride
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.520, -101.620
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 7, 1997
6 hail, 3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 Amarillo radar (KAMA), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:22 UTC.
Event by event
6 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hutchinson
- When
- May 7, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson County, 2 mi W of Sanford
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.730, -101.520
Hail, Roberts
- When
- May 7, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts County, Miami
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -100.630
Tornado, Gray
- When
- May 7, 6:39 PM CST to 6:41 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County, 8 mi SW of Lefors
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.350, -100.920
Hail, Carson
- When
- May 7, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County, Skellytown
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.570, -101.180
Tornado, Carson
- When
- May 7, 6:52 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County, 9 mi SE of Panhandle
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.250, -101.270
Hail, Carson
- When
- May 7, 7:06 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County, Groom
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -101.100
Tornado, Gray
- When
- May 7, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County, Laketon to 5 mi NE of Laketon
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.620, -100.630
Hail, Donley
- When
- May 7, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Donley County, Jericho
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.170, -100.920
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1997Warnings in Texas, 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: 5610196, 5610313, 5610314, 5610315, 5610316, 5610317, 5610318, 5610319, 5610320.