Hail, Beaver
- When
- May 20, 5:26 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, 3 mi W of Knowles
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -100.230
Hail in Oklahoma, May 20, 1999
A cold front moving through the western sections of the Oklahoma panhandle with the dry line located across the extreme western Texas panhandle along with plenty of low level moisture combined to produce scattered severe thunderstorms over the eastern Oklahoma panhandle. The storms produced mainly large hail.
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
- $1,000
- 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 AMA wrote it up.
A cold front moving through the western sections of the Oklahoma panhandle with the dry line located across the extreme western Texas panhandle along with plenty of low level moisture combined to produce scattered severe thunderstorms over the eastern Oklahoma panhandle. The storms produced mainly large hail.
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:25 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Beaver
- When
- May 20, 5:44 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, Knowles
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -100.180
Hail, Beaver
- When
- May 20, 5:59 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, Slapout
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -100.120
Hail, Beaver
- When
- May 20, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, 2 mi N of Slapout
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.650, -100.120
Hail knocked out the windshield of spotter's car.
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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 20, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 20 to 22, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 20 to 21, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 20, 1999
- Tornado in Montana, May 20, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 20, 1999
- Hail in Florida, May 20, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, May 20, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 20, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, May 20, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 20, 1999
- Hail in Texas, May 20, 1999
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, May 1999
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: 5698365, 5698366, 5698367, 5698368.