Hail in Oklahoma City on Saturday, May 17, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 29 hail reports in Oklahoma City on Saturday, May 17, 2025, between 4:26 pm and 10:22 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 4.00 inches at 5 N Stella (Oklahoma County) at 10:22 pm. NOAA radar flagged 766 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 358 rated a 100% chance of hail and 277 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 12 places in Canadian, Grady, McClain and Oklahoma counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Mustang 10 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Tuttle 5 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Bethany 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Tinker Air Force B 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Tinker Air Force Ba 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Warr Acres 2 reports, up to 2.25 in
- Bradley 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Bridge Creek 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Chickasha 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Maysville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Nicoma Park 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Stella 1 report, up to 4.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:26 pm | 1.00 | Chickasha | Grady | (OUN) |
| 4:45 pm | 1.00 | 4 W Bridge Creek | Grady | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN) |
| 4:46 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Tuttle | Grady | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN) |
| 4:48 pm | 1.25 | 3 SE Bradley | Grady | (OUN) |
| 4:49 pm | 1.25 | 3 E Tuttle | Grady | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (OUN) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.75 | 3 ENE Tuttle | Grady | (OUN) |
| 4:53 pm | 2.75 | 3 E Tuttle | Grady | Report from mPING: Baseball (2.75 in.). (OUN) |
| 4:56 pm | 1.75 | 1 W Mustang | Canadian | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (OUN) |
| 4:59 pm | 1.25 | 1 W Mustang | Canadian | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (OUN) |
| 5:02 pm | 1.00 | 5 N Maysville | McClain | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN) |
| 5:02 pm | 2.25 | 1 NE Mustang | Canadian | Report from mPING: Hen Egg+ (2.25 in.). (OUN) |
| 5:03 pm | 2.75 | Mustang | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 5:04 pm | 1.25 | 4 NE Mustang | Oklahoma | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (OUN) |
| 5:04 pm | 1.00 | 3 NNW Mustang | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.50 | 2 W Mustang | Canadian | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (OUN) |
| 5:05 pm | 2.00 | 3 N Mustang | Canadian | Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.) Delayed report estimated from radar. (OUN) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.50 | 3 NNE Mustang | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.25 | 4 SSW Bethany | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 5:10 pm | 1.00 | 5 ENE Tuttle | Grady | (OUN) |
| 5:11 pm | 1.25 | 2 NE Mustang | Canadian | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (OUN) |
| 5:12 pm | 2.25 | 2 S Warr Acres | Oklahoma | Report from mPING: Hen Egg+ (2.25 in.) Deleyed report... estimated from radar. (OUN) |
| 9:30 pm | 1.25 | 3 S Bethany | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 9:33 pm | 1.75 | 2 S Warr Acres | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 9:51 pm | 1.00 | 3 SW Tinker Air Force B | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 9:54 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Tinker Air Force Ba | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 9:54 pm | 1.25 | 1 W Tinker Air Force Ba | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 9:58 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Tinker Air Force B | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 10:10 pm | 1.00 | 5 S Nicoma Park | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 10:22 pm | 4.00 | 5 N Stella | Oklahoma | Near I-40 and Peebly Road. (OUN) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
766 signatures from 7 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 358 were rated 100% and 27 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOKC | 294 | 102 | 79 | 5 | 2.25 in | 3:38 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KVNX | 139 | 79 | 60 | 7 | 3.50 in | 3:43 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KFDR | 120 | 74 | 62 | 6 | 3.25 in | 3:35 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KTLX | 89 | 46 | 39 | 3 | 2.25 in | 3:33 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KINX | 73 | 37 | 25 | 5 | 3.50 in | 4:27 pm | 11:37 pm |
| KICT | 44 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 2.00 in | 8:57 pm | 11:41 pm |
| KSRX | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 10:08 pm | 10:50 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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