Hail, Bexar
- When
- April 23, 11:12 AM CST to 11:20 AM CST
- Where
- Bexar County, San Antonio
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 29.417, -98.500
Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 23, 2001
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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.
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 23, 10:02 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 10:02 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1102 AM CDT MON APR 23 2001 SMALL CLUSTER OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES IN THE SAN ANTONIO AREA WITH A FEW REPORTS OF 3 TO 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN. CLUSTER HAS SHOWN SIGNS OF WEAKENING IN INTENSITY AS REDEVELOPMENT TAKES PLACE JUST WEST. THESE THE RESULT OF SHORT-WAVE AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. MODELS INDICATE SHORT-WAVE WILL MOVE EAST BY EVENING. SO...WILL MAINTAIN HIGH POPS AND SEVERE/HEAVY RAINFALL MENTIONS...ESPECIALLY SOUTH AND EAST FOR THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TO BE NOT NEEDED AS WIDESPREAD FLOODING NOT EXPECTED. WILL MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO WINDS AND TEMPERATURES BASED ON ONGOING TRENDS. ANY CHANGES TO REMAINING PERIODS WILL WAIT UNTIL AFTERNOON PACKAGE. 04/06. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:18 AM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-231300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 618 AM CDT MON APR 23 2001 EARLY THIS MORNING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM THE AUSTIN AREA WEST TO PARTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE SAN ANTONIO AREA...HONDO AND UVALDE. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM AND ITS ASSOCIATED COOL FRONT MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY WILL BODE WELL FOR MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES...ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. TO THE NORTH...A SURGE OF COOLER AIR IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY...KEEPING DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...BRINGING A CHANCE OF RAIN OR SHOWERS TO THE EAST AND SOUT|HEAT PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:06 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-231400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 706 AM CDT MON APR 23 2001 AT 706 AM...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM THE GEORGETOWN AND AUSTIN AREAS TO THE SAN ANTONIO AREA... THEN WEST TO NEAR HONDO. AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO INDICATED BETWEEN UVALDE AND EAGLE PASS. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM AND ITS ASSOCIATED COOL FRONT MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WAS PRODUCING THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THIS PATTERN WILL BODE WELL FOR MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES...ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. TO THE NORTH...A SURGE OF COOLER AIR IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY...KEEPING DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...AND MAY CAUSE A CHANCE OF RAIN OR SHOWERS OVER THE EAST AND SOUTHEAT PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ON TUESDAY SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME PARTL?Y CLOUDY AND THEN MOSTLY SUNNY. MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY NIGHT. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Local storm report, Apr 23, 9:03 AM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1003 AM CDT MON APR 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATIONR....
0400 AM 13 N VANDERPOOL TX TORNADO
04/23/01 BANDERA TORNADO REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVERSThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Bexar
- When
- April 23, 1:45 PM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bexar County, 5 mi SW of St Hedwig
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.367, -98.267
Thunderstorm Wind, Wilson
- When
- April 23, 1:50 PM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wilson County, Sutherland Spgs
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.267, -98.067
Trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds.
Hail, Wilson
- When
- April 23, 2:00 PM CST to 2:10 PM CST
- Where
- Wilson County, 8 mi W of La Vernia
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.350, -98.250
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Iowa, April 23, 2001
- Tornado and High Wind in Iowa, April 23, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 23, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, April 23, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 23, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 23, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, April 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 23, 2001
- Strong Wind in Iowa, April 23, 2001
- Flooding in Vermont, April 23 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 23, 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: 5237965, 5237966, 5237968, 5237967.