Hail, Cimarron
- When
- September 13, 2:46 PM CST
- Where
- Cimarron County, Felt
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.567, -102.783
Hail in Oklahoma, September 13, 2002
Severe thunderstorm containing large hail moved across the western Oklahoma panhandle during the mid to late afternoon hours.
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
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorm containing large hail moved across the western Oklahoma panhandle during the mid to late afternoon hours.
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 Sep 13, 2:25 PM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 2:25 PM CST, 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 235 PM CDT FRI 13 SEP 2002 LATEST ANALYSIS SHOWS SFC TROF ORGANIZING ALONG TX/NM STATE LINE IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT PROGGED TO AFFECT THE AREA DURG NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS. TSTMS ALREADY DVLPG OVR HIGHER TERRAIN OF NRN NM AND SERN CO AS POTENT SHORTWAVE TRAVERSING SRN ROCKIES INTERACTS WITH MOISTURE... HEATING...AND ATTENDANT INSTABILITY. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND WILL RETAIN SUCH WORDING IN ZONES FOR TNGT. WILL ALSO HOLD ON TO AREAL QUALIFIERS BASED ON RADAR TRENDS. SOME SORT OF WIND SHIFT WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING AND TNGT AHEAD OF MAIN PUSH OF COOL AIR VIA A SURFACE HIGH WHICH IS SLATED TO BUILD INTO THE AREA LATE SAT AND SAT NIGHT. MAIN UPPER TROF AXIS SHOULD BE E OF FCST AREA BY LATE SATURDAY...AND WILL LEAVE POPS OUT FOR SAT NIGHT AT THIS TIME. SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT THRU 72 HRS WITH SOME DIFFERENCES IN DETAILS AS IS TO BE EXPECTED WITH TIMING OF FRONTS AND COOL AIR SURGES. IT APPEARS WX DURG LATE WEEKEND INTO NEXT FRIDAY WILL BE FAIRLY QUIET. BUT THIS IS SAID WITH CAUTION. LATEST MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE NOT IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH UPPER AIR PATTERN DURG MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK SO CONFIDENCE IS LOW. REFER TO PMDEPD FOR MORE DETAILS. FOR NOW...WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FCST WITH TEMPS NEAR CLIMATOLOGY...WHICH IS WHAT PREVIOUS PCKG HAD. PRELIM VALUES FOLLOW. FCSTID = 02 AMARILLO 58 76 54 74 / 50 20 00 00 BEAVER 60 76 53 74 / 60 20 00 00 BOISE CITY 54 73 50 72 / 50 20 00 00 BORGER 59 75 54 74 / 60 20 00 00 BOYS RANCH 57 75 53 75 / 50 20 00 00 CANYON 58 75 54 74 / 50 20 00 00 CLARENDON 64 77 57 76 / 50 20 00 00 DALHART 56 74 52 73 / 50 20 00 00 GUYMON 59 75 53 73 / 60 20 00 00 HEREFORD 57 75 54 74 / 50 20 00 00 LIPSCOMB 60 76 54 74 / 60 20 00 00 SHAMROCK 64 78 59 76 / 50 20 00 00 WELLINGTON 64 78 59 76 / 50 20 00 00 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. ANDRADE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-132200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT FRI SEP 13 2002 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS AFTERNOON...A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER IS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND LIBERAL. A PACIFIC COOL FRONT EXTENDS SOUTH OF THE LOW TO NEAR CLAUDE TEXAS. A MUCH STRONGER COOL FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE PANHANDLES ON SATURDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS OVER THE PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PANHANDLES APPEAR TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS. STORMS INITIALLY WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE EAST BUT LATER TONIGHT STORMS WILL MOVE IN A SOUTHEASTLY DIRECTION. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO EXPECTED. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SLATTERY
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 177 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:47 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cimarron
- When
- September 13, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Cimarron County, 10 mi SW of Griggs
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.500, -102.250
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
- Tornado and Flooding in Texas, September 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, September 13, 2002
- Wildfire in Oregon, September 13 to 15, 2002
- Flooding in Georgia, September 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, September 13, 2002
- Wildfire in Washington, September 13 to 23, 2002
- Wildfire in Hawaii, September 13, 2002
- Hail in New Mexico, September 13, 2002
- Flood in Colorado, September 13, 2002
- Tornado in New Mexico, September 13, 2002
- Flood in Colorado, September 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, September 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, September 2002
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: 5321231, 5321232.