Hail, Lipscomb
- When
- August 17, 6:08 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb County, 4 mi SW of Darrouzett
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -100.367
Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 17, 2001
Severe thunderstorms over the northeastern Texas panhandle during the early evening hours produced hail and damaging winds.
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
- $7,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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 over the northeastern Texas panhandle during the early evening hours produced hail and damaging winds.
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 17, 2:26 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:26 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 326 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001 PROGRESSIVE UPPER PATTERN FCST NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS INITIAL SHRTWV MVS THROUGH MS VALLEY INTO NE U.S. UPPER RIDGE OVER INTER-MOUNTAIN REGION WILL SLIDE E INTO SRN PLAINS BUT LOSE AMPLITUDE. VERY STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL DROP S OUT OF GULF OF AK AND AFFECT PAC NW EARLY NEXT WITH AFFECTS BEING FELT IN PLAINS AS EARLY AS MID WEEK. FOR TONIGHT...PLAN ON AREAL COVERAGE TERMS IN SE ZNS WHERE ISOLD CONVECTION OCCURRING ALONG SHEAR AXIS EXTENDING NE INTO CENTRAL OK. SUBSIDENCE ATTM BEHIND THIS WV ACROSS NE BUT A FEW SHOWERS ATTEMPTING TO ORGANIZE THERE. ACTIVITY ACROSS ERN NM LIKELY TO PERSIST LONGEST AND DROP S VCNTY WRN CWA BORDER THIS EVE. WILL GO WITH HIGHER UNCERTAINTY POPS NW WITH CONTINUED 20 POPS CENTRAL/NE. WEAK WINDSHIFT OVERNIGHT COVERED WELL BY PREVIOUS PACKAGE WITH LITTLE OR NO IMPACT ON TEMPS ON SAT. H8 TEMPS ACTUALLY PROGGED TO WARM A COUPLE DEGREES EACH DAY THIS WEEKEND SO WILL CONTINUE WARMING TREND THROUGH SUN DESPITE MOS INSISTENCE THE OTHER WAY. IN EXTENDED... PLAN ON KEEPING POPS IN NW ZNS THROUGHOUT AS PLENTY OF SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE ACROSS OLD MEXICO BLEEDING INTO SW U.S. AS RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS E WITH TIME...MOUNTAIN CONVECTION LIKELY TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS. WEAK STEERING FLOW WILL ALLOW CHCS FOR ONLY NW ZNS INITIALLY...HOWEVER THIS EXPECTED CHG LATER IN WEEK AS STRONGER SWRLY FLOW MVS E. TEMPS SHOULD CONTINUE TO WARM INTO VERY EARLY NEXT WEEK BEFORE LEVELING OFF OR DROPPING THROUGH MIDWEEK WITH INCREASED CLOUDS/PRECIP POSSIBILITIES. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COBB
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:10 UTC.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Lipscomb
- When
- August 17, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb County, 2 mi W of Lipscomb
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.233, -100.300
Thunderstorm Wind, Lipscomb
- When
- August 17, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb County, 2 mi W of Lipscomb
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.233, -100.300
High winds blew a trampoline against a house.
Thunderstorm Wind, Lipscomb
- When
- August 17, 6:43 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb County, 5 mi SW of Lipscomb
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.183, -100.333
High winds blew down several trees.
Thunderstorm Wind, Lipscomb
- When
- August 17, 6:47 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb County, 6 mi S of Lipscomb
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.150, -100.267
High winds blew down a tree on State Highway 305.
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 Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Rip Current in Michigan, August 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, August 17 to 20, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 17, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 17, 2001
More
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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: 5267197, 5267198, 5267199, 5267200, 5267201.