Hail in Texas, September 27, 1996

Name: Hail in Texas, September 27, 1996
Start: 1996-09-27T17:20
End: 1996-09-27T17:20
Location: Texas

September 27, 1996 · NWS CRP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Skywarn spotter reported golfball size hail. One person was killed, while taking refuge beneath a tree, by a large felled tree branch.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.

Skywarn spotter reported golfball size hail. One person was killed, while taking refuge beneath a tree, by a large felled tree branch.

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 195 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:20 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Webb

When: September 27, 5:20 PM CST
Where: Webb County, Laredo
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Coordinates: 27.550, -99.470

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Hail, Webb	1996-09-27		Male	Under Tree	Direct

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5563438.