Hail, Deaf Smith
- When
- August 12, 8:27 PM CST
- Where
- Deaf Smith County, 10 mi W of Hereford
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.817, -102.583
Hail in Texas, August 12, 2001
A severe thunderstorm with large hail moved across the southwest Texas panhandle during the 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.
A severe thunderstorm with large hail moved across the southwest Texas panhandle during the 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 Aug 12, 8:09 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 8:09 PM CST, 18 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 909 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2001 SHOWERS WEAKENING BUT STILL HANGING ON ACROSS OK PNHDL VCNTY SFC TROUGH WHICH WAS ANALYZED AT 21Z STRETCHING FM SE CO SE INTO NW OK. THIS ACTIVITY BUILDING MORE W WITH TIME BUT EXPECTED TO DIMINISH WITH LOSS OF HEATING. OTHER STRONGER SCT STORMS ACROSS EXTREME SRN TX PNHDL IN SAME AREA AS LAST NIGHT STRETCHING E-W FM BETWEEN CVS/TCC TO PALO DURO CANYON. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO PERSIST THROUGH EVE INTO EARLY MORNING MON. MODELS INDICATE STORMS SUPPORTED BY WEAK WAA/ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER STALLED FNTL BOUNDARY ACROSS SRN PORTIONS OF S PLAINS. IN ADDITION...CONVERGENCE AXIS NOTED AT H7 AHEAD OF WEAK SHRTWV TRAPPED BENEATH MID LEVEL RIDGE GIVING ADDED SUPPORT. WILL UPDATE ZNS TO LOWER/REMOVE POPS NORTH AND KEEP AREAL COVERAGE TERMS SRN ZNS WHERE ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO PERSIST. 0-6KM MEAN WIND VECTOR INDICATES A SWITCH BACK TO ERLY FLOW FOR ENTIRE AREA BY 12Z SO SOME LOCALIZED EXCESSIVE RAINS POSSIBLE ESP SW CORNER IF STORMS STALL AND MV BACK W...WILL KEEP MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN GOING THERE. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COBB
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:41 UTC.
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
- Heat in Missouri, August 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 12, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 12, 2001
- Wildfire in Oregon, August 12 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, August 12, 2001
- Wildfire in Washington, August 12 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, August 12, 2001
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, August 12 to 13, 2001
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, August 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, August 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 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: 5267196.