Hail, Beaver
- When
- February 23, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, 5 mi E of Elmwood
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.617, -100.433
Hail in Oklahoma, February 23, 2001
An isolated severe thunderstorm developed during the early evening hours across the eastern Oklahoma panhandle producing 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
- None recorded
- 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 AMA wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm developed during the early evening hours across the eastern Oklahoma panhandle producing hail.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST, 14 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 826 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND TO ADD FOG TO ALL ZONES. MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTHWEST FROM DOWN-STATE. DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S ARE APPROACHING THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. COLD FRONT JUST NOW MOVING EAST OF THE ROCKIES IN NEW MEXICO. SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO TAKE SHAPE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO NEAR KLHX. STILL EXPECTING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO/WESTERN TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATER TONIGHT AS COLD FRONT INTERACTS WITH DEEP MOISTURE. UPPER LOW LOOKS LIKE IT IS NOW MAKING A MORE EASTWARD TRACK...SO STRONGER WINDS ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE TROUGH SHOULD START SPREADING ACROSS WEST TEXAS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. .AMA... TX...HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY TXZ001>020. OK...HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY OKZ001>003. GOEHRING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 8:11 PM CST, 29 minutes before
TXZ011-016-240300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 811 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 TXZ011-016-240300- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED ALL COUNTIES IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 26. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HEREFORD...VEGA... NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. SCHNEIDER/GOEHRING/BILODEAU
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:40 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Beaver
- When
- February 23, 8:58 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, 10 mi E of Beaver
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.817, -100.333
Hail, Beaver
- When
- February 23, 9:10 PM CST
- Where
- Beaver County, 8 mi SE of Beaver
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.733, -100.417
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Wyoming, February 23, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 23, 2001
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 23 to 25, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Illinois, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 23, 2001
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, February 23 to 25, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 23 to 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, February 2001
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: 5235362, 5235363, 5235364.