Hail in Oklahoma, April 26, 2012

Name: Hail in Oklahoma, April 26, 2012
Start: 2012-04-26T17:12
End: 2012-04-26T22:16
Location: Oklahoma

April 26, 2012 · NWS AMA · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

Severe thunderstorms developed and moved across the western and central Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours producing hail. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Where it happened

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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.

Severe thunderstorms developed and moved across the western and central Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours producing hail. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

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 Apr 26, 5:12 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 5:12 PM CST, 0 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
612 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

.AVIATION...
STRONG TO SEVERE CONVECTION WILL AFFECT THE TAF SITES THROUGH ABOUT
04Z TO 06Z FRIDAY. MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS IN AND NEAR THE CONVECTION
WITH VFR CONDITIONS OUTSIDE CONVECTION. SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS 15 TO 30
KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS EXCEPT VARIABLE WINDS 30 TO 40 KNOTS WITH
GUSTS NEAR 45 TO 50 KNOTS NEAR THE CONVECTION. WINDS WILL BECOME
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST AFTER 06Z FRIDAY 20 TO 30 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS
AND THEN WESTERLY 25 TO 35 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS AROUND 15Z FRIDAY
THROUGH THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD. COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE GUYMON
TAF SITE AROUND 18Z TO 20Z FRIDAY WITH WINDS BECOMING NORTHERLY 15 TO
25 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS.

SCHNEIDER

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 243 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012/

DISCUSSION...
OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIES NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS FAR EASTERN NEW
MEXICO AND THEN SOUTHEAST TO JUST SOUTH OF LUBBOCK EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON. A DRYLINE WAS TAKING SHAPE FROM SOUTHEAST COLORADO INTO
EASTERN NEW MEXICO JUST TO THE WEST OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. UPPER
LEVEL LOW WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL ARIZONA. LIFT OUT AHEAD OF THE
UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS HELPING TO DEVELOP INITIAL CUMULUS AND SHOWERS
OFF OF THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. UPPER LEVEL LIFT AND
DIFFLUENCE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS THE
NORTHWEST HALF OF THE CWA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH A
FEW SEVERE ONES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO
BE MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CWA. GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTHWEST
OF A LINE FROM CHANNING TO DUMAS TO PERRYTON TO BEAVER. THE MAIN
THREATS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...
HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO WOULD NOT BE OUT OF THE QUESTION. THE
COVERAGE OF STORMS MAY BE FAIRLY ISOLATED GIVEN THE LACK OF DEEP LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE...BUT STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE
LATER TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA AS A PACIFIC COLD
FRONT SWEEPS ACROSS THE REGION.

WEST WINDS WILL BE PRETTY GUSTY FRIDAY MORNING BEHIND THE PACIFIC
FRONT...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY DIMINISH IN THE LATE
AFTERNOON. WE REMOVED THE SHOWERS FROM THE NORTHERN CWA FOR FRIDAY
NIGHT AS IT LOOKS LIKE THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE TOO FAR REMOVED
FROM OUR AREA TO BRING US RAIN.

THE WEATHER REMAINS UNSETTLED FROM THE LAST HALF OF THIS WEEKEND INTO
EARLY NEXT WEEK. A BROAD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CARVE ITSELF OUT
OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND PLAINS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA
THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ALONG WITH SEVERAL UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE TO BRING US A DAILY CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.

FIRE WEATHER...
ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE ON FRIDAY DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DOWN AROUND 15 PERCENT. THE CHANCES OF RAIN
FOR ALL OF THE PANHANDLES WILL INCREASE AGAIN BY THE LATER HALF OF
THIS WEEKEND.

&&

.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

&&

11/08

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 2:47 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
347 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-270900-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
347 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR THE WESTERN
AND CENTRAL PANHANDLES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PANHANDLES
THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. HOWEVER AN ISOLATED TORNADO
WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE THE GREATEST
ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE TEXAS
PANHANDLE.

CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES DUE TO STRONG SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS
LATE TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE ON FRIDAY DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT
ACROSS MUCH OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. HOWEVER...THE
PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW AT
THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT MAINLY ACROSS THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.

AREA FIRE MANAGERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
POSSIBLE ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FRIDAY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST
TEXAS PANHANDLES.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:26 PM CST, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
526 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0526 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 N CANYON              35.04N 101.92W
04/26/2012  E60 MPH          RANDALL            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200269

SMB

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:29 PM CST, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
529 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     TSTM WND GST     7 SW AMARILLO           35.13N 101.91W
04/26/2012  E60 MPH          RANDALL            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200270

SMB

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:32 PM CST, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
532 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0517 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 NNW CANYON            35.02N 101.94W
04/26/2012  M69 MPH          RANDALL            TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200271

LG

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:36 PM CST, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
536 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     HAIL             6 SW AMARILLO           35.15N 101.89W
04/26/2012  E0.88 INCH       RANDALL            TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200272

SMB

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:52 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
552 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0551 PM     HAIL             7 ENE AMARILLO          35.23N 101.71W
04/26/2012  E0.88 INCH       POTTER             TX   NWS OFFICE

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200273

KJS

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:55 PM CST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
555 PM CDT THU APR 26 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 N CANYON              35.04N 101.92W
04/26/2012                   RANDALL            TX   PUBLIC

            FENCE BLOWN OVER. EMPTY SEMI TRUCK TRAILER BLOWN OVER.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200275

BUFFALO

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 156 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:12 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Cimarron

When: April 26, 5:12 PM CST to 5:13 PM CST
Where: Cimarron County, Griggs
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Fire Department/Rescue
Coordinates: 36.600, -102.120

Hail, Texas

When: April 26, 5:55 PM CST to 5:56 PM CST
Where: Texas County, 8.29 mi NNE of Eva
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 36.910, -101.840

Hail, Cimarron

When: April 26, 10:15 PM CST to 10:16 PM CST
Where: Cimarron County, 5.58 mi E of Wheeless
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 36.730, -102.800

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Oklahoma in 2012 Every state in 2012 This day in weather history Warnings in Oklahoma, April 2012

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: 375827, 375828, 375829.