Texas, 2001

Hail in Texas, August 17, 2001

August 17, 2001 · NWS HGX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$5,000
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 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 17, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
250 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

A FEW SHRA DEVELOPING OVER NE ZONES THIS AFTN CLOSER TO OLD FRONT
ACROSS NORTH TX. WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS GOING THIS AREA TONIGHT TO
ACCOUNT FOR CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG FRONT.

NOW APPEARS 500 MB TROF DIGGING INTO THE OHIO VALLEY THIS WEEKEND
WILL MOVE FURTHER EAST AND HAVE LESSER EFFECTS ON CWA THAN
PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. 12Z MODELS HAVE BACKED OFF CONSIDERABLY ON
MOISTURE LEVELS AND PRECIP CHANCES AS A RESULT. PREVAILING WESTERLY
FLOW FROM SURFACE TO 500 MB WILL HELP TO CAP SE TX THIS WEEKEND.
LATEST AVN SHOWS HIGHEST PWS OVER NE ZONES TONIGHT FALLING TO AROUND
NORMAL VALUE OF 1.7 INCHES SATURDAY. PWS PROGGED TO DROP BELOW
NORMAL AREA WIDE SUNDAY. NEXT FRONT PUSHES INTO NE TX/NRN LA SUNDAY
AFTN BEFORE STALLING BUT WILL GENERATE ONLY ISOLATED TSRA IN THE
DRIER AIRMASS. ONLY OTHER TRIGGER FOR CONVECTION WILL BE AFTERNOON
SEABREEZE BUT THIS WILL ONLY MUSTER ISOLATED TSRA MAINLY OVER THE
COUNTIES AROUND HOUSTON/GALVESTON.

WILL LEAN TOWARD WARMEST MAV GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS NEXT FEW DAYS SINCE
IT HAS VERIFIED WELL LATELY. COLLEGE STATION JUST HAD 8 DAYS IN A
ROW WITH TEMPS 100 DEGREES OR HIGHER AND WILL LIKELY REMAIN ABOVE
THE CENTURY MARK FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. HEAT INDICES WILL HAVE
TO BE WATCHED OVER THE WEEKEND. A COUPLE OF SPOTS REACHED VALUES OF
109 DEGREES ON THURSDAY...AND 105 TO 109 DEGREE VALUES APPEAR LIKELY
SAT/SUN. WILL PUT OUT AN SPS FOR HIGH HEAT INDICES THIS WEEKEND.

FOR EXTENDED...LATEST AVN/MRF SHOW TROF BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO
WESTERN STATES DURING THE UPCOMING WEEK WHICH ALLOWS H500 RIDGE TO
BUILD RIGHT OVER EAST TX/LA. TEMPS WILL AT LEAST HOLD STEADY MAYBE
CLIMB A LITTLE MORE INTO THE UPCOMING WEEK WITH ONLY ISOLATED
DIURNAL CONVECTION. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CHANTAL...CURRENTLY
PROGGED TO REACH THE SOUTHEAST GULF OR BAY OF CAMPECHE TUE/WED.

35/42/DH

.HGX...NONE.

PRELIMS...
CLL BB 076/101 076/102 074 321
IAH BB 076/098 075/099 074 221
GLS BB 081/091 080/091 080 221

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Montgomery

When
August 17, 7:00 PM CST
Where
Montgomery County, The Woodlands
Measured
0.88 in hail
Property damage
$5,000
Reported by
BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates
30.150, -95.450

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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: 5263387.