Hail — Mccurtain, Oklahoma

2025-05-19 · near Battiest, Mccurtain, Oklahoma

Event narrative

Dime to nickel size hail fell in Battiest.

Wider weather episode

A large upper level trough ejected northeast from the Four Corners Region across the Rockies into the Plains on May 19th-20th, allowing the West Texas dryline to mix east across Westcentral and North Texas. The increase in large scale forcing ahead of this dryline across a very warm, moist, and unstable air mass resulted in multiple complexes of strong to severe thunderstorms to develop across portions of North Texas and Eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon of the 19th, which advanced east-northeast into portions of Southeast Oklahoma and the northern sections of Southwest Arkansas during the evening hours into the early morning hours of the 20th. These storms produced multiple reports of large hail and damaging winds across McCurtain County Oklahoma, before shifting east into Polk and Northern Howard Counties in Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours before exiting the region to the northeast.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1262739. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.