Hail, Val Verde
- When
- March 15, 4:00 PM CST to 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, 5 mi NW of Comstock
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.730, -101.230
Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, March 15, 1998
2 hail, 2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $18,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:57 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Val Verde
- When
- March 15, 6:40 PM CST to 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, 13 mi W of Langtry
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.820, -101.780
Flash Flood, Val Verde
- When
- March 15, 7:15 PM CST to 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, North Portion
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 29.893, -101.152 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hwy 163 near Baker's Crossing was flooded for over an hour as over 3 inches of rain had fallen upstream within the past hour.
Flash Flood, Edwards
- When
- March 15, 9:00 PM CST to 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County, South Portion
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 29.983, -100.305 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Border Patrol officers from Carrizo Springs reported roads under water in southern Edwards County as a result of nearly 2 inches of rain over the previous 2 hours.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
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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: 5633508, 5633509, 5633510, 5633511.