Hail, Carter
- When
- June 18, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County, 3 mi E of Healdton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 34.230, -97.438
Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 18, 2011
A few severe thunderstorms produced hail up to golf-ball size and winds around 60 mph.
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
- 6
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 OUN wrote it up.
A few severe thunderstorms produced hail up to golf-ball size and winds around 60 mph.
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 Jun 18, 1:59 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:59 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
259 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011
.DISCUSSION...
CONTINUED RECORD OR NEAR-RECORD HEAT NEXT 2 DAYS. HEAT INDICES
CURRENTLY 105-113 ON AXIS SPS-OKC-SWO AREAS. PROJECTED MAX VALUES
SUNDAY ARE JUST BELOW 105 OVER MOST OF CENTRAL OK BUT AGAIN 105-110
SW OK AND OUR TX ZONES. WE WILL RIDE WITH THE CURRENT HEAT ADVISORY
THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING AND CONTINUE TO STRESS THE NEED FOR EXTRA
CAUTION IN THE HWO IN MOST AREAS WHERE VALUES WILL AT LEAST
APPROACH 105 THIS WEEKEND.
FIRE WATCH IS UPGRADED TO RED FLAG WARNING. WE HAVE ADDED A FEW
COUNTIES IN NW OK AND IN TX WHERE RH VALUES ARE FORECAST TO DROP
WELL BELOW 20 PCT.
PRECIP CHANCES LIKELY LIMITED TO E AND N PARTS OF THE AREA TONIGHT.
SFC CIRCULATION IS STATIONARY JUST W OF ENID. CHANCES N ARE WITH S
END OF E-MOVING MCS ACROSS KS. STORM-SCALE MODELS HAVE BEEN
CONSISTENT IN INITIATING STORMS FROM SCENTRAL/SE OK TOWARD ABILENS
LATE TODAY SO WE WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE THIS EVENING IN OUR SE
ZONES. WILL ALSO ADD A SLIGHT CHANCE LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY
EVENING NEAR DRYLINE ACROSS OUR W BASED ON LATEST NAM QPF.
POTENT SYSTEM FOR LATE JUNE EMERGES ONTO THE PLAINS MONDAY. THIS
COULD BE AN ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY - THE MAIN QUESTION FOR OUR
AREA IS WHETHER THE CAP CAN BE OVERCOME. AT THIS TIME WE THINK IT
WILL HOLD IN MOST AREAS THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON... THUS LOW POPS
MONDAY ARE CONFINED TO NCENTRAL OK. CHANCES INCREASE AS STORMS
BUILD S ALONG ADVANCING COLD FRONT MONDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL BRING
AN END TO THE RECORD HEAT... AS HIGHS TUESDAY DROP BACK TO NEAR OR
SLIGHTLY BELOW CLIMATOLOGY.
STANDARD INITIALIZATION FOR TUESDAY AND BEYOND WITH ONLY MINOR
ADJUSTMENTS.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK 75 102 75 98 / 20 10 10 10
HOBART OK 78 106 78 103 / 20 20 20 10
WICHITA FALLS TX 79 108 79 104 / 20 10 10 10
GAGE OK 69 109 73 104 / 20 10 10 10
PONCA CITY OK 73 102 78 97 / 20 10 10 20
DURANT OK 77 102 75 99 / 20 10 10 10
&&
.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...RED FLAG WARNING FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR OKZ004-005-009-
010-014-021-033-034-036.
HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR OKZ037>039-044-045.
TX...RED FLAG WARNING FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR TXZ083>085-087-
088.
HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR TXZ084>090.
&&
23/24Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:05 PM CST, 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
405 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-191000-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
405 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT
ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.
LOCATION...
THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM WOODWARD TO ENID TO
STILLWATER.
TIMING...
THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM EARLY
EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS...
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE
RISK AREA SHOULD PLAN FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS FROM EARLY THIS
EVENING THROUGH EARLY MORNING SUNDAY.
DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF
COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON...THEN ORGANIZE INTO A STORM COMPLEX AS THEY
MOVE INTO KANSAS THIS EVENING. THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF ANY STORM
COMPLEXES THAT DO FORM OVER KANSAS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO EXTEND
SOUTH INTO THE NORTHERN ONE FOURTH OF OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS MAY
LAST WELL INTO THE NIGHT. THE GREATEST THREATS FROM THESE STORMS
WOULD BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...HOT SURFACE
TEMPERATURES AND WEAK CONVERGENCE ALONG A COLD FRONT HAS OVERCOME
VERY WARM MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ALONG THE FRONT...AND
WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY WEAKEN AND DISSIPATE LATE THIS EVENING.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SUNDAY JUN 19.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...70 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE DANGEROUS
HEAT INDICES FOR PARTS OF THE AREA. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT.
PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST VERSION OF THIS PRODUCT FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
A STORM SYSTEM AND ACCOMPANYING COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE IN THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE ON MONDAY. THIS WILL ENHANCE THE RISK FOR
STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. THERE
WILL ALSO BE AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF
OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS EVERY DAY FROM SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. HOT WEATHER WILL PERSIST
FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER DAY...AND A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR
PARTS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS ON SUNDAY.
CMSIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:49 PM CST, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 349 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011 OKZ045-046-182115- JEFFERSON OK-CARTER OK- 349 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR CARTER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. AT 349 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RINGLING...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAZARDS INCLUDE... WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH... MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3438 9732 3419 9722 3407 9761 3424 9769 WR
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:01 PM CST, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
401 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011
TXZ090-182130-
CLAY TX-
401 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR CLAY COUNTY.
AT 401 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 15
MILES NORTH OF BELLEVUE TO SHANNON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE ALERT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
LAT...LON 3381 9802 3384 9798 3383 9797 3354 9797
3346 9821 3346 9834
WRThe radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:11 UTC.
Event by event
5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Carter
- When
- June 18, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County, Springer
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 34.310, -97.140
Hail, Love
- When
- June 18, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Love County, 4 mi S of Thackerville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.732, -97.140
The hail occurred at the WinStar Golf Course.
Hail, Love
- When
- June 18, 5:49 PM CST
- Where
- Love County, 4 mi S of Thackerville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.732, -97.140
The hail occurred at the WinStar Golf Course. In addition to the hail, the winds were estimated at 60 mph.
Thunderstorm Wind, Love
- When
- June 18, 5:49 PM CST
- Where
- Love County, 4 mi S of Thackerville
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.732, -97.140
The wind gust was estimated at the WinStar Golf Course. In addition to the winds, hail up to golf-ball size was reported.
Hail, Kay
- When
- June 18, 8:27 PM CST
- Where
- Kay County, Chilocco
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 36.990, -97.070
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 18, 2011
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 18, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 18, 2011
- Wildfire in Texas, June 18 to 24, 2011
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Missouri, June 18 to 19, 2011
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 18, 2011
- Wildfire in Texas, June 18 to 22, 2011
- Wildfire in North Carolina, June 18 to 30, 2011
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 18, 2011
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, June 2011
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: 324991, 324992, 324995, 324993, 324994, 324996.