Hail in Tulsa on Sunday, May 18, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 6 hail reports in Tulsa on Sunday, May 18, 2025, between 3:03 am and 1:41 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 SSE Tiawah (Rogers County) at 1:36 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,413 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 667 rated a 100% chance of hail and 447 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and Tulsa counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Skiatook 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Hoffman 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Pryor 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Tiawah 1 report, up to 1.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:03 am | 1.00 | 1 N Hoffman | Okmulgee | hwy 266 & 300 Rd; time estimated by radar. (TSA) |
| 12:46 pm | 1.25 | 6 W Skiatook | Osage | (TSA) |
| 12:47 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Skiatook | Osage | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (TSA) |
| 12:54 pm | 1.00 | 4 E Skiatook | Tulsa | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (TSA) |
| 1:36 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSE Tiawah | Rogers | Rogers County EM reports golf ball sized hail in Tiawah near Hwy 530 and 88. (TSA) |
| 1:41 pm | 1.25 | 7 W Pryor | Rogers | Intersection of S 4230 and Hwy 20 on Mayes and Rogers County line. (TSA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
2,413 signatures from 8 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; 667 were rated 100% and 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTUL | 893 | 197 | 152 | 3 | 2.25 in | 12:01 am | 7:02 pm |
| KTLX | 377 | 129 | 72 | 8 | 4.00 in | 12:06 am | 4:01 pm |
| KVNX | 302 | 89 | 61 | 3 | 2.50 in | 12:01 am | 4:13 pm |
| KICT | 269 | 86 | 55 | 2 | 3.50 in | 12:03 am | 4:10 pm |
| KINX | 263 | 73 | 59 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:01 am | 3:58 pm |
| KSRX | 225 | 70 | 38 | 4 | 3.00 in | 12:08 am | 2:55 pm |
| KSGF | 78 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 3.75 in | 2:21 am | 2:50 pm |
| KTWX | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 3:26 pm | 3:59 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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