Hail, Foard
- When
- April 6, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Foard County, 7 mi N of Crowell
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -99.720
Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 6, 1998
4 hail, 1 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
- 5
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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
4 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hardeman
- When
- April 6, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hardeman County, 13 mi S of Quanah
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.130, -99.730
Hail, Wilbarger
- When
- April 6, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wilbarger County, Vernon
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -99.280
Hail, Wilbarger
- When
- April 6, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Wilbarger County, Vernon
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -99.280
Tornado, Wilbarger
- When
- April 6, 5:13 PM CST
- Where
- Wilbarger County, 5 mi NE of Oklaunion
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.180, -99.070
A small tornado (F0) touched down in a field for less than one minute.
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 Flooding in Iowa, April 6, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, April 6, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 6 to 7, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 6, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, April 6, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, April 6 to 7, 1998
- Hail in Texas, April 6, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, April 6, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, April 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, April 6, 1998
- Dust Devil in Virginia, April 6, 1998
More
Every storm in Texas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1998Warnings in Texas, April 1998
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: 5660060, 5660061, 5660062, 5660064, 5660063.