Hail, Creek
- When
- September 20, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Creek County, Silver City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.083, -96.500
Hail in Oklahoma, September 20, 2001
1 hail, 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
- 1
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 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 20, 8:05 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 8:05 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 905 AM CDT THU SEP 20 2001 UPDATED TO RAISE POPS FOR SRN ZONES AND INTRODUCE POPS TO NE OK ESP ACROSS OSAGE...WASHINGTON AND PAWNEE COUNTIES FOR SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA. RADAR OBSERVATIONS SHOW TOUGH LOOKING STORMS HOWEVER VISUAL APPEARANCES FROM KTSA SHOW THE STORMS TO BE HIGH-BASED. EXPECT STORMS TO WEAKEN AND COVERAGE TO DECREASE LATER THIS MORNING WITH FAR SOUTHERN ZONES HAVING LINGERING LIGHT PRECIP THE LONGEST TODAY. MIGHT EVEN DISSIPATE BEFORE IT REACHES WESTCENTRAL AR. NW AR SHOULD REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR. FCSTID = 26 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 5:00 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-211200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 600 AM CDT THU SEP 20 2001 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... A WARM FRONT ALONG THE RED RIVER WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ACTIVITY ALONG THIS FRONT SHOULD DIMINISH BY THIS AFTERNOON. A SURFACE COLD FRONT ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH DURING THE DAY TODAY. THIS FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT AND A FEW MAY BE SEVERE PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT ACROSS MAINLY NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. .DISCUSSION... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IN MISSOURI WILL MOVE EAST TODAY ALLOWING A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE HIGH PLAINS TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. THE CONVECTION ACROSS CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SHOULD STAY TO THE WEST OF THE AREA THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE WARM FRONT ACROSS THE RED RIVER THIS AFTERNOON...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE DURING THE DAY TODAY AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE LOWER TO MID 80S. BY THIS EVENING...LIFTED INDEX VALUES WILL BE AROUND -5 C WITH CAPE VALUES FROM 1500 TO 2000 J/KG CREATING A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE INTO THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT CAUSING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG IT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL MAINLY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THREAT TABLE VALID THROUGH 1200 UTC FRIDAY AREA 1...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM PROBABILITY...60 SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...40 SIGNIFICANT SEVERE PROBABILITY IF STORMS OCCUR...20 THREAT AREAS DEFINE THE GREATEST RISK. PROBABILITIES ARE IN PERCENT. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE IS DEFINED AS F1 OR GREATER WIND/TORNADO DAMAGE AND/OR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. RELATED GRAPHICAL INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA AN UPDATED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1 PM TODAY.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:30 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, September 20, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, September 20, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, September 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, September 20, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, September 20, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, September 20, 2001
- Hail in Texas, September 20, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, September 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 20 to 23, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, September 20, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, September 20, 2001
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, September 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: 5268073.