Hail, Texas
- When
- June 7, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Texas County, 7 mi N of Baker
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.967, -101.017
Hail in Oklahoma, June 7, 2001
An isolated severe thunderstorm with hail developed over the central Oklahoma panhandle during the early evening hours.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 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 AMA wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm with hail developed over the central Oklahoma panhandle during the early evening hours.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 2:02 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:02 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 302 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THE LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING AROUND THE CWA. EAST TO SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW ALONG WITH FAIRLY STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES ARE AIDING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT. NO SIGN OF THE DRYLINE AS DEW POINTS ARE RUNNING AROUND 55 F AT KCQC INCREASING TO 70 F AT KLBL. MODELS HINT AT A COUPLE OF SHORT WAVE TROUGHS MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. THESE FEATURES A LITTLE HARD TO FIND IN THE CURRENT WV LOOP AND SUSPECT THE MODELS (PARTICULARLY THE AVN) ARE TOO AGGRESSIVE. THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED COLD FRONT WILL SAG SOUTH INTO THE NORTHEAST ZONES TONIGHT. WEAK STEERING FLOW COMBINED WITH HIGH PW VALUES COULD BRING SOME HEAVY RAIN TO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WILL NOT MENTION IN ZONES BUT LATER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS. EXPECT GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO BE OVER THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST ZONES...SO WILL CARRY HIGHEST POPS THERE. LOWEST POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST WHERE SUBSIDENT REGION ON THE NWRN PERIPHERY OF T.D. ALLISON SHOULD ONLY ALLOW FOR ISOLATED CONVECTION. SHORT WAVE ENERGY IN NW FLOW ALOFT WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA TOMORROW AND WITH SURFACE DEW POINTS FORECAST TO REMAIN IN THE MID TO UPPER 50S...CAN NOT RULE OUT PRECIPITATION AND WILL RETAIN POPS. MORE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION POSSIBLE TOMORROW NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH NW FLOW ALOFT AND WILL KEEP MENTION OF PRECIPITATION IN THE FORECAST. MODELS HAVE SHOWN SOME CHANGES IN THE EXTENDED WITH REGARDS TO TIMING. FOR NOW...WILL RETAIN CURRENT FORECAST. PRELIM CCF: AMA 062/083 060/0S89 62 06323 DHT 061/082 059/090 60 06423 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. PLATT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:55 AM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-072100- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1255 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL ROCKIES ALONG WITH MOIST SOUTHEAST UPSLOPE FLOW ON THE SURFACE WILL COMBINE TO KEEP THUNDERSTORMS SUSTAINED THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A NORTH TO NORTHWEST WIND FLOW ALOFT WILL PUT THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES IN THE BEST POSITION FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. THE ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL COMBINE TO CREATE A HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND SPOTTER GROUPS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. GOEHRING
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strikes in Mississippi, June 7, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 7, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Colorado, June 7, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 7 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Maryland, June 7, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 7 to 8, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 7, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 7, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 7, 2001
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, June 2001
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: 5246976.