Hail, Houston
- When
- February 26, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Houston County, Latexo
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.383, -95.467
Hail in Texas, February 26, 2001
2 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
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Feb 26, 9:55 AM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 9:55 AM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 955 AM CST MON FEB 26 2001 WARM FRONT JUST OFF THE MATAGORDA COAST & JUST SOUTH OF 42035 THIS MORNING. LOOKS LIKE 12Z ETA INITIALIZED FAIRLY WELL SO...SO WILL BUY ITS SOLN FOR AT LEAST THIS AFTERNOON BY GRADUALLY MOVING THE FRONT INLAND. AXIS OF SCT SHWR/TSTMS FROM ROUGHLY MATAGORDA TO LIVINGSTON WITH ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY DEVELOPING OFF THE CRP COASTLINE. WILL NUDGE POPS UP TO 40 PERCENT NORTH AND WEST OF THE AXIS AND UP TO 30 PERCENT SOUTHEAST. MAY LOWER COASTAL TEMPS A CAT SINCE THEY WILL LIKELY BY SOCKED IN WITH FOG ON AND OFF THIS AFTERNOON. REST OF TEMPS LOOK ON TRACK .KHGX...NONE. 47/31/43 PRELIMS... CLL EE 075/062 075/053 053 424 IAH EE 075/063 076/054 054 324 GLS EE 070/066 075/057 056 324
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 194 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:20 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Austin
- When
- February 26, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Austin County, 5 mi NNE of Bellville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.017, -96.233
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
- Rip Current in Guam, February 26, 2001
- Heavy Snow in California, February 26 to 27, 2001
- Winter Storm in Kansas, February 26 to 27, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 26 to 28, 2001
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 26 to 27, 2001
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Alaska, February 26 to 28, 2001
- Winter Storm in Kansas, February 26 to 27, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, February 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, February 26, 2001
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 26 to 27, 2001
- Dense Fog in Florida, February 26, 2001
- Flooding in California, February 26, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 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: 5233025, 5233026.