Hail, La Salle
- When
- August 30, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- La Salle County, Cotulla
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 28.433, -99.233
5 mi SE of Cotulla.
Hail in Texas, August 30, 2001
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
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 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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 6:30 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 6:30 PM CST, 5 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
730 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
UPDATED ZFP TO REFLECT EXPANDED FFA AREA. EXPANDED FFA TO TAKE IN
COUNTIES NEAR TRAIN ECHO AREA...NORTHERN WEBB...LA
SALLE...MCMULLEN...LIVE OAK. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
IN THIS AREA HAS BEEN STATIONARY FOR THE LAST FEW HOURS. 3 HOUR
RAIN TOTALS ARE FROM 3 TO 4 INCHES. ADD EXPECTED RAIN TONIGHT AND
TOMORROW TO THIS AREA...FFG VALUES WILL BE APPROACHED OR EXCEEDED.
ALSO UPDATED NE CWFA IN FFA TO CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT.
DEEP LAYER MOISTURE ALONG WITH UPR LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE
OUR RAIN PERIOD. PER H20 VAPOR...TROF DIGGING INTO TX EXPECTED TO
ENHANCE CONVECTION. ALL THIS PLUS NOCTURNAL LLJ SHOULD KEEP
ACTIVITY GOING THIS EVENING.
PREVIOUS PRELIMS...
CRP TT 075/088 076/091 076 72563
VCT TT 074/088 075/091 075 72573
LRD EB 077/094 077/098 076 72242
.CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239...TXZ245>247
GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY.
KEG...70 SYN
JM...75 MESOThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 30, 2001
- Rip Current in California, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 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: 5257435.