Hail, Creek
- When
- July 2, 2:30 AM CST
- Where
- Creek County, 3 mi NW of Bristow
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 35.870, -96.420
Baseball-sized hail damaged several cars and a house near Bristow.
Hail in Oklahoma, July 2, 1998
Summary of events for July 2 1998:Leftover outflow boundaries from non-severe thunderstorms on July 1 combined with an upper level trough caused isolated severe thunderstorms to develop early on the morning of July 2. The main threat with these isolated storms was hail as large as baseballs near Bristow.
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
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 TSA wrote it up.
Summary of events for July 2 1998:Leftover outflow boundaries from non-severe thunderstorms on July 1 combined with an upper level trough caused isolated severe thunderstorms to develop early on the morning of July 2. The main threat with these isolated storms was hail as large as baseballs near Bristow. Another isolated severe thunderstorm developed during the afternoon along another old leftover boundary.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:28 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Tulsa
- When
- July 2, 7:15 AM CST
- Where
- Tulsa County, Broken Arrow
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.050, -95.780
Hail, Latimer
- When
- July 2, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Latimer County, Wilburton
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.920, -95.320
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heat and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 2 to 27, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 2 to 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Wildfire in Idaho, July 2 to 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flood in Montana, July 2, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, July 2 to 4, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 2, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 2 to 3, 1998
- Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
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: 5657649, 5657650, 5657648.