Hail, Liberty
- When
- December 13, 11:10 AM CST
- Where
- Liberty County, Dayton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.050, -94.883
Liberty Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail near Dayton, at Raywood and on State highway 321.
Hail in Texas, December 13, 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 9:50 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 9:50 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 950 AM CST THU DEC 13 2001 RADAR ABLAZE WITH ACTIVITY AGAIN THIS MORNING. WARM SECTOR HAS COME INLAND OVR SERN ZONES. LBX AND GLS BOTH HAVE SE WINDS AND 70 DWPTS. HIGH SHEAR ENVIRONMENT IN PLACE TDA. CRP SOUNDING HELICITY ABV 400. MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW THIS HOLDING IN PLACE THROUGH MID AFTN. WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR ROTATION IN STORMS...ESPECIALLY ALG THE WARM FNT. HAVE HAD SOME PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTS ALSO THIS MORNING. WITH LOWERING WET BULB ZEROES...WILL ALSO BE AT RISK FOR LARGER DIAMETERS AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. DRYING IN THE MID LVLS IS ALSO FCST...AS IS EVIDENT IN THE CRP SOUNDING. DEEPENING SFC LOW ALG COAST SHOULD HELP DRAG CDFNT THRU CWA BY EVENING. DECENT DRYING SETS UP OVERNIGHT. CURR ZFP SEEMS TO HAVE THINGS WELL COVERED. WILL DO SOME TEMP TWEEKING GIVEN CURR READINGS IN THE WARM SECTOR. WINDS AND SEAS UP AGAIN AT 44019. WILL HOIST AN SCEC ALL WATERS. WINDS SHD PICK UP BEHIND CDFNT TO PSBL SCA LVLS TNGT. .HGX...SCEC BAYS AND GULF WATERS. 46/37/49 PRELIMS... CLL TB 059/038 059/043 065 600 IAH TB 071/042 060/044 068 830 GLS TB 073/052 058/054 067 830
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:07 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, December 13 to 14, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, December 13 to 14, 2001
- Tornado in Louisiana, December 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, December 13, 2001
- Tornado in Louisiana, December 13, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, December 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, December 13, 2001
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in California, December 13 to 14, 2001
- Heavy Snow in California, December 13 to 14, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 13 to 14, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 13 to 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Arkansas, December 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, December 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: 5275816.