Hail in Texas, April 16, 2001

Name: Hail in Texas, April 16, 2001
Start: 2001-04-16T15:50
End: 2001-04-16T16:00
Location: Texas

April 16, 2001 · NWS EWX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 16, 1:40 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:40 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
240 PM CDT MON APR 16 2001

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING JUST NORTH OF THE
WARM FRONT FROM TAYLOR TO HOUSTON.  THESE TSTMS HAVE SVR POTENTIAL
WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT.  TSTMS MAY BUILD WESTWARD
ALONG THE WARM FRONT THIS EVENING AFFECTING THE NE COUNTIES.

MAJOR LATE SEASON COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
AROUND MIDNIGHT AND BE SOUTH OF THE CWFA BY TUESDAY MORNING.
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE
FRONT WITH A THREAT OF SVR TSTMS...WITH LARGE HAIL.  WILL HAVE
POST-FRONTAL RAIN AND TSTMS ON TUESDAY.  PCPN CHANCES CONTINUE INTO
TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY AS A SHORT WAVE IN THE NW FLOW ALOFT
MOVES THRU.  TUESDAY WILL BE COOL AND WINDY AS CAA AND CLOUD COVER
INHIBIT ANY DAYTIME WARMING.  HIGH TEMPS TUESDAY FOR MUCH OF THE
CWFA WILL OCCUR IN THE MORNING...WITH FALLING TO NEAR STEADY TEMPS
DURING THE AFTERNOON.  WARMUP WILL BEGIN THURSDAY WITH HUMID
CONDITIONS BACK FOR THE WEEKEND.  NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN IS MONDAY.

PRELIMS...
AUS 58/65/46/65/50 65320
SAT 62/66/50/68/53 65320
DsRT 68/71/53/70/59 55330

.EWX...NONE.

13/05

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-170400-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
315 PM CDT MON APR 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND
THE HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS...ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT.

A COLD FRONT WILL RACE SOUTHWARD INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS TONIGHT.  THIS BOUNDARY OF COLDER AIR WILL COLLIDE WITH
ABUNDANT LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE STREAMING NORTHWARD FROM THE GULF OF
MEXICO.  WHERE THE TWO MEET WILL DETERMINE WHERE THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL DEVELOPS AND WHERE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES
AND/OR WARNINGS WILL BE REQUIRED.

PRE-FRONTAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS ALREADY BEEN TRIGGERED BY
AFTERNOON HEATING BETWEEN GEORGETOWN AND HOUSTON IN CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST TEXAS.  CURRENT MOVEMENT IS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS EVENING IN CENTRAL
AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AS WELL AS THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY...THIS
EVENING.

FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...PLEASE
REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND/ODESSA...SAN ANGELO...FORT
WORTH...HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.

The radar

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lee

When: April 16, 3:50 PM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Lee County, 2 mi NE of Lincoln
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 30.300, -96.933

Hail, Lee

When: April 16, 3:50 PM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Lee County, Lexington
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 30.417, -97.000

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

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5237857, 5237858.