Hail in Tulsa on Monday, May 19, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 42 hail reports in Tulsa on Monday, May 19, 2025, between 3:48 pm and 6:46 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 2 NE Jenks (Tulsa County) at 3:57 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,398 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 485 rated a 100% chance of hail and 423 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 11 places in Creek, Osage, Rogers and Tulsa counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Tulsa 16 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Jenks 7 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Owasso 5 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Collinsville 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Broken Arrow 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Glenpool 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Skiatook 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Verdigris 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Burbank 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Mounds 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Vera 1 report, up to 1.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:48 pm | 1.00 | Mounds | Creek | (TSA) |
| 3:50 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Jenks | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:52 pm | 1.00 | 4 NE Jenks | Tulsa | Nickel to quarter size hail at 71st and Yale. (TSA) |
| 3:53 pm | 1.00 | Jenks | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:55 pm | 1.25 | Jenks | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:56 pm | 1.75 | 2 NE Jenks | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:56 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Broken Arrow | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:57 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Jenks | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:57 pm | 2.00 | 2 NE Jenks | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:57 pm | 1.75 | 4 SW Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:58 pm | 1.00 | 4 E Glenpool | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 3:59 pm | 1.25 | 3 SW Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:00 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Glenpool | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:00 pm | 1.00 | 3 SW Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:00 pm | 1.50 | 5 E Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:00 pm | 1.25 | 2 E Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:01 pm | 1.25 | 3 W Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:01 pm | 1.50 | 2 N Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:02 pm | 1.25 | 2 NW Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:03 pm | 1.75 | 4 NW Broken Arrow | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:03 pm | 1.00 | 4 E Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:04 pm | 1.00 | 4 NE Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:05 pm | 1.50 | 2 N Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:06 pm | 1.25 | 2 SW Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:08 pm | 1.00 | 4 ENE Tulsa | Tulsa | National weather service office @ 11th and highway 169. (TSA) |
| 4:10 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Owasso | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:11 pm | 1.50 | 4 W Verdigris | Rogers | (TSA) |
| 4:11 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Owasso | Rogers | (TSA) |
| 4:11 pm | 1.50 | 1 S Skiatook | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:12 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Tulsa | Tulsa | Quarter size hail lasting approximately 4 minutes. Leaves ripped off trees. (TSA) |
| 4:12 pm | 1.25 | 1 E Owasso | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:12 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Skiatook | Osage | (TSA) |
| 4:13 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Tulsa | Tulsa | Report of golf ball hail and tree limbs down at 31st and yale. (TSA) |
| 4:13 pm | 1.25 | 3 E Owasso | Rogers | (TSA) |
| 4:15 pm | 1.00 | 5 E Owasso | Rogers | (TSA) |
| 4:17 pm | 1.00 | 2 NW Verdigris | Rogers | (TSA) |
| 4:22 pm | 1.00 | 4 SW Vera | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:26 pm | 1.50 | 3 S Collinsville | Tulsa | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (TSA) |
| 4:27 pm | 1.75 | 3 NE Tulsa | Tulsa | (TSA) |
| 4:28 pm | 1.00 | 3 SE Collinsville | Rogers | (TSA) |
| 4:28 pm | 1.50 | 1 WNW Collinsville | Tulsa | Lots of quarter to ping pong hail observed. (TSA) |
| 6:46 pm | 1.25 | 2 W Burbank | Osage | (TSA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,398 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; 485 were rated 100% and 88 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 | 502 | 114 | 126 | 13 | 2.75 in | 7:45 am | 9:32 pm |
| KTLX | 201 | 88 | 70 | 14 | 3.00 in | 7:54 am | 9:18 pm |
| KVNX | 183 | 76 | 70 | 17 | 3.25 in | 7:57 am | 7:34 pm |
| KINX | 180 | 63 | 52 | 11 | 3.25 in | 7:47 am | 9:21 pm |
| KSRX | 154 | 70 | 48 | 12 | 3.00 in | 7:52 am | 7:11 pm |
| KICT | 147 | 58 | 46 | 19 | 3.50 in | 7:57 am | 9:19 pm |
| KSGF | 30 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2.50 in | 8:27 am | 6:34 pm |
| KTWX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 2:01 pm | 2:01 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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