Texas, 2001

Hail in Texas, June 23, 2001

June 23, 2001 · NWS EWX · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 23, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
200 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2001

UPPER RIDGE BUILDS EASTWARD OVER CWA NEXT 48 HOURS.  RETROGRADING
CUT OFF LOW OVER EASTERN US PUSHES BACK BY MIDWAY IN THE PERIOD
ALLOWING WEAK DISTURBANCES TO SLIDE OVER THE CWA IN COL AREA IN THE
EXTENDED PERIOD.  STRONGEST OF THESE APPEARS TO BE AT END OF
EXTENDED AND WILL TEND TOWARD CURRENT DRY FORECAST FOR TIME BEING.
SEA BREEZE SHOULD BE ENHANCED ENOUGH TO WARRANT SLGHT CHANCE POPS
SOUTHEAST ZONES IN THE EXTENDED.  SHORTER TERM RIDGE SHOULD KEEP
SKIES SUNNY AND TEMPS WARM.  CONVECTION TONIGHT PUSHES SOUTH OF CWA
ALL BUT RIO GRANDE ZONES BY MIDNIGHT WITH SHOWERS LINGERING THERE
UNTIL SUNDAY AND DEPARTURE OF LAST BIT OF ENERGY.  THERMALLY DRIVEN
LOW LEVEL JET WILL AID SUNRISE STRATUS AFTER HIGH CLOUDS FROM MCS
DEPART.

PRELIMS...
AUS 70/93/70/94 2000
SAT 72/95/73/96 2000
DRT 72/100/72/100 22-0

.EWX...NONE.

10/05/PM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:39 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>192-202>206-217>220-240329-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
439 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2001

ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT HAS CAUSED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY THIS
AFTERNOON.  AS THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST...
THEY MAY MOVE OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD CAUSE BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AT
25 TO 50 MPH...SOME HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.  OCCASIONAL
DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE ANOTHER WEATHER HAZARD WITH THE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO PART OF THE
EVENING.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

The radar

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Llano

When
June 23, 7:00 PM CST to 7:10 PM CST
Where
Llano County, Tow
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
30.883, -98.467

Hail, Burnet

When
June 23, 7:40 PM CST to 7:50 PM CST
Where
Burnet County, 10 mi NW of Burnet
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
30.850, -98.333

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.

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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: 5247733, 5247734.