Hail — Mccurtain, Oklahoma

2025-05-17 · near Broken Bow Arpt, Mccurtain, Oklahoma

Event narrative

Nickel size hail fell in the Lukfata community.

Wider weather episode

A weak stationary front extended north of the Interstate 20 corridor in Northeast Texas east into far Southern Arkansas during the afternoon hour of May 17th, which began to drift back north by late afternoon into the evening, due to a southerly low level flow that developed across the broad warm sector to the south. This was in response to tighter pressure gradient ahead of an upper level trough that traversed northeast from the Southern Plains into the Ozarks. Ample daytime heating atop a very moist air mass along and south of the front contributed to strong instability, with increased large scale forcing ahead of the trough and along the front resulting in scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developing during the afternoon and evening across portions of Southern Arkansas, extreme Northeast Texas, and Southeast Oklahoma. One isolated strong thunderstorm moved across Southern McCurtain County Oklahoma, producing nickel size hail in the Lukfata community.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1262730. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.