Hail, Bandera
- When
- April 15, 6:25 PM CST to 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Bandera County, Tarpley
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.633, -99.283
Hail in Texas, April 15, 2001
3 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 3
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 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 15, 1:25 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 1:25 PM CST, 5 hours before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 225 PM CDT SUN APR 15 2001 PREFER THE SLOWER AVN SOLUTION ONCE AGAIN FOR THIS FCST. WEAK COLD FRONT IS ENTERING THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE CWFA ATTM WITH CONVECTION FIRING OVER EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL OUT OVER THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES TONIGHT WITH NO PCPN EXPECTED FOR THE CWFA. HOWEVER SLIGHTLY LOWER DEWPOINTS WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND EDWARDS PLATEAU. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL WASH OUT MONDAY AS SE SFC FLOW RETURNS BY THE AFTERNOON. STRONG COLD FRONT CURRENTLY OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS WILL MOVE INTO THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT. SPC DAY2 OUTLOOK HAS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CWFA IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. WILL NOT MENTION SVR IN ZONE FCST...MAINLY NOCTURNAL PASSAGE OF FRONT ACROSS THE CWFA MAY PRECLUDE SVR WX DEVELOPMENT. BELOW NORMAL TEMPS WILL RESULT TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY...ENJOY. WARM AND HUMID WX WILL RETURN FOR THE WEEKEND. TEMPS AND POPS WILL BE CLOSE TO MAV NUMBERS. PRELIMS... AUS 63/81 58/65 46 1145 SAT 66/84 62/69 50 1135 DRT 65/87 65/71 52 0045 .EWX...NONE. 13/05
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 4:52 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
TXZ184>187-189-202>207-221-160200- HAZARADOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 552 PM CDT SUN APR 15 2001 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 6 PM AND 7 PM ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTHWARD TO THE AREA ALONG HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN UVALDE AND SAN ANTONIO BETWEEN 7 PM AND 9 PM. DUE TO THE STRONG DAYTIME HEATING THE AIR IS UNSTABLE ENOUGH SO THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME LARGE HAIL. THIS OUTLOOK APPLIES TO FOLLOWING SPECIFIC COUNTIES... COMAL...MEDINA...KENDALL...WILSON...REAL...KERR...BEXAR...BANDERA... EDWARDS...KINNEY...GUADALUPE AND UVALDE. SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE THREATENED AREA. && FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND...SAN ANGELO...FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:25 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Uvalde
- When
- April 15, 6:45 PM CST to 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Uvalde County, 3 mi W of Utopia
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.617, -99.583
Hail, Uvalde
- When
- April 15, 8:55 PM CST to 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- Uvalde County, 5 mi W of Utopia
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.617, -99.617
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Tornado in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Tornado in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Tornado in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 15, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in South Carolina, April 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 15, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 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: 5237854, 5237855, 5237856.