Hail in Texas, April 22, 2001

Name: Hail in Texas, April 22, 2001
Start: 2001-04-22T07:51
End: 2001-04-22T10:18
Location: Texas

April 22, 2001 · NWS AMA · 6 events in 2 counties and zones

Severe thunderstorms with large hail moved across the northern and eastern Texas panhandle during the morning hours.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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.

Severe thunderstorms with large hail moved across the northern and eastern Texas panhandle during the morning 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 Apr 22, 1:54 AM CST, 5 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 1:54 AM CST, 5 hours 57 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
254 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

BIGGEST CONCERNS THIS FCST PD ARE THE WINDS AND FIRE WEATHER THREAT.
RIGHT NOW...A LULL IN THE ACTION AS FAR AS SEVERE WX GOES...HWVR
MORE ACTVTY PSBL LTR AS MAIN MID AND UPR LOW EJECTS OUT OF THE SWRN
STATES LTR TNGT AND THEN NEWD INTO CO/KS BY 18Z SUN OR SO.  LOOKING
AT HIGH WIND DECISION TREE...APRS THAT THE 700 MB GRADIENT METHOD
COMES OUT TO AT LEAST 90 TO 99 METERS OVR 200 NM ON SUNDAY ACRS THE
PNHDLS. THIS TRANSLATES INTO WND SPDS OF AT LEAST 40 TO 50 MPH WITH
GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR HIER...OTRW HIGH WND WRNG CRITERIA.  MOS GUIDANCE
FCSTG MIN RH VALUES NR OR SLGTLY BLO 20 PCT BY SUN AFTN ACRS THE
PNHDLS. WL LIKELY GO WITH A HI WND WRNG FOR THE TX AND OK PNHDLS AND
WL ISSUE A RED FLAG WRNG FOR FIRE WX FOR THE TX PNHDL SUN.

STRONG CDFNT MOVS OUT OF THE CNTRL PLNS AND CNTRL RCKYS BY MIDDAY
SUN AND THEN MOVS THRU THE OK AND NRN TX PNHDLS DURING THE AFTN AND
THEN THRU THE RMNDR OF THE TX PNHDL BY ERY SUN EVE.  MUCH COLDER AMS
ADVECTS DOWN INTO THE FA SUN NGT AND MON AS SFC HIGH MOVS OVR THE
PNHDLS.  THE SFC HIGH THEN FCSTD TO RMN OVR OR NR THE PNHDLS MON NGT
AND TUE.  ANOTHER WKR CDFNT FCSTD TO MOV OUT OF CO AND KS TUE AND
TUE NGT AND THEN FCSTD TO BCM STNRY NR THE OK PNHDL BY WED.  SFC
HIGH DROPPING SEWD OUT OF THE PLNS STATES WED MAY HELP THE CDFNT TO
MOV THRU THE FA LT WED AFTN/ERY WED EVE.  LEE SIDE SFC TROF DVLPS
ACRS ERN CO AND ERN NM THU.   CURRENTLY...FCST HAS SLGT CHC FOR
CNVTN THU AND FRI.  LACK OF LO LVL MSTR WL BE A CONCERN FOR CNVTV
DVLPMT.  MAY NEED TO DROP THE SLGT CHC...BUT WL LOOK AT LTST MRF
BFR MAKING ANY CHGS TO CURRENT EXTENDED FCST.  LOOKS AS THOUGH
EXTENDED FCST WL BE DRY.

THANK YOU FOR THE COORDINATION WSFO LBB...ABQ...DDC...AND OUN.

PRELIM CCF:

AMA 070/039 064/038 073  300
GUY 068/038 063/037 072  300
DHT 069/038 063/036 071  200

.AMA...
TX...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY FOR ZONES 001>020 TIL 00Z.
OK...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY FOR ZONES 001>003 TIL 00Z.

SCHNEIDER/BROYLES/BILODEAU

The radar

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Event by event

6 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hansford

When: April 22, 7:51 AM CST
Where: Hansford County, 4 mi SW of Gruver
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.767, -100.017

Hail, Hansford

When: April 22, 8:00 AM CST
Where: Hansford County, 1 mi E of Gruver
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.233, -101.450

Hail, Hansford

When: April 22, 8:05 AM CST
Where: Hansford County, 8 mi SE of Gruver
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.267, -101.383

Hail, Collingsworth

When: April 22, 9:49 AM CST
Where: Collingsworth County, 1 mi W of Wellington
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.183, -101.300

A windshield was broken in the Sheriff deputy's car by the hail.

Hail, Collingsworth

When: April 22, 9:58 AM CST
Where: Collingsworth County, Wellington
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.850, -100.233

Hail, Collingsworth

When: April 22, 10:18 AM CST
Where: Collingsworth County, Dodson
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.850, -100.217

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

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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: 5244497, 5242736, 5242737, 5242738, 5242739, 5242740.