Hail in Oklahoma, September 22, 2001

Name: Hail in Oklahoma, September 22, 2001
Start: 2001-09-22T21:10
End: 2001-09-22T22:50
Location: Oklahoma

September 22, 2001 · NWS OUN · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 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.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 22, 8:40 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 8:40 PM CST, 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
940 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

WILL PROVIDE ANOTHER UPDATE TO HANDLE CONVECTIVE SITUATION. SHORT
TERM AND MESOSCALE MODELS DID NOT HAVE ACTIVITY MOVING INTO
NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA...WHICH IS NOW OCCURRING. COLD POOL GENERATED
EARLIER BY DRYLINE CONVECTION IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS PROVIDING
ENOUGH LIFT TO REALIZE AMPLE MID LEVEL INSTABILITY. ALTHOUGH
ACTIVITY MAY WEAKEN WITH TIME AFTER MIDNIGHT...BELIEVE THAT COLD
POOL SHOULD CONTINUE SPREADING SOUTHWARD AND GENERATING ENOUGH
MECHANICAL LIFT TO SUPPORT HIGHER POPS ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
ZONES TONIGHT.

MINS WILL ALSO BE RAISED A LITTLE ACROSS MAINLY SOUTHERN PORTIONS
OF THE FORECAST AREA AS DEWPOINTS HAVE STARTED POOLING NICELY WITH
68+ READINGS WIDESPREAD.

FCSTID = 11

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:10 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Harper

When: September 22, 9:10 PM CST
Where: Harper County, Buffalo
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 36.833, -99.617

Hail, Woodward

When: September 22, 10:50 PM CST
Where: Woodward County, Woodward
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.433, -99.400

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

Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5263570, 5263571.