Hail, Castro
- When
- September 14, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Castro County, Dimmitt
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.550, -102.320
Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, September 14 to 15, 1999
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
- $20,000
- Crop damage
- $200,000
- 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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Castro
- When
- September 14, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Castro County, 5 mi E of Dimmitt
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.550, -102.230
Large, wind-driven hail broke windows between Dimmitt and Nazareth.
Flash Flood, Castro
- When
- September 14, 10:35 PM CST to September 15, 12:15 AM CST
- Where
- Castro County, 5 mi W of Dimmitt
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.530, -102.262 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Highway 86 west of town was reported flooded.
Flash Flood, Castro
- When
- September 14, 10:45 PM CST to September 15, 12:15 AM CST
- Where
- Castro County, 3 mi N of Dimmitt
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.530, -102.262 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Five feet of water was reported over Highway 385 north of town.
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
- Hurricane in North Carolina, September 14 to 16, 1999
- Hurricane in Florida, September 14 to 15, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Arizona, September 14, 1999
- Hurricane in Florida, September 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, September 14, 1999
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, September 14, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, September 14, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, September 14, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, September 14, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, September 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, September 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, September 14, 1999
More
Every storm in Texas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 1999
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: 5717199, 5717196, 5717198, 5717197.