Oklahoma, 2025

Hail in Oklahoma, October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025 · NWS OUN · 1 event in 1 county or zone

The passage of a high-amplitude trough, and associated trailing surface front, aided in scattered thunderstorm development across east-central Oklahoma on the evening of the 18th. A report of hail was received near the community of Prague in Lincoln County.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.

The passage of a high-amplitude trough, and associated trailing surface front, aided in scattered thunderstorm development across east-central Oklahoma on the evening of the 18th. A report of hail was received near the community of Prague in Lincoln County.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 18, 6:05 PM CST, 15 minutes before
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The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:18 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lincoln

When
October 18, 6:20 PM CST
Where
Lincoln County, 0.36 mi E of Prague
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
35.491, -96.684

The report was relayed through mPING.

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

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1293712.