Hail, Hall
- When
- May 20, 7:24 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County, 4 mi SE of Memphis
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 34.680, -100.480
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 20, 1999
3 hail, 2 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 Amarillo radar (KAMA), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:23 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Childress
- When
- May 20, 7:29 PM CST
- Where
- Childress County, 19 mi NW of Childress
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.620, -100.430
Tornado, Childress
- When
- May 20, 7:29 PM CST
- Where
- Childress County, 19 mi NW of Childress
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 34.620, -100.430
A brief tornado was reported in open country by trained spotters and by an off-duty NWS employee. No survey was conducted.
Hail, Childress
- When
- May 20, 7:44 PM CST
- Where
- Childress County, 15 mi N of Childress
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.630, -100.200
Tornado, Childress
- When
- May 20, 7:48 PM CST
- Where
- Childress County, 18 mi N of Childress
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.680, -100.200
Storm spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in open country. No NWS survey was conducted.
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
- 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
- Hail in Oklahoma, 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 Texas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1999Warnings in Texas, 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: 5697587, 5696688, 5697590, 5697588, 5697589.