Hail, Lubbock
- When
- June 24, 7:10 PM CST to 7:17 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County, (Lbb)lubbock Intl Ar
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 33.667, -101.817
Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 24, 2001
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- 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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 1:15 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:15 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 215 PM CDT SUN JUN 24 2001 SOUTH PLAINS UNDER UPPER HIGH PRESSURE THROUGH PERIOD THOUGH A SLOW MOVING CUT-OFF LOW DRIFTS CLOSE LATTER PART OF WEEK. BEST UPPER FORCING REMAINS IN FLOW TO WEST AND EAST OF AREA...SO NEAR PERSISTENT FORECAST FOR TEMPERATURES...WINDS AND CLOUDS ABOUT THE BEST BET. TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED A BIT TODAY COMPARED TO SATURDAY...SO WILL UP HIGHS CORRESPONDINGLY NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. SPOTTY THUNDERSTORMS STILL THE MAIN PROBLEM FOR TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. GOOD INSTABILITY AGAIN APPARENT THIS AFTERNOON OVER AREA WITH CAPES IN 2500 RANGE AT LUBBOCK. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE STILL IN PLACE WITH DEWPOINTS MAINLY 60S. NO APPARENT TRIGGER RIGHT NOW SO TOUGH TO PINPOINT BEST AREA FOR THIS EVENING/TONIGHT. DRYING AREA ON WATER VAPOR HAS SHIFTED A BIT SOUTHWEST...LEAVING WESTERN ZONES IN BETTER MID-LEVEL MOISTURE AND MORE OF A CHANCE FOR CAPPING SUBSIDENCE TOWARD THE EAST. WILL GO WITH CONSISTENCE AND PERSISTENCE TONIGHT KEEPING SLIGHT CHANCES MAINLY WESTERN HALF OF CWA. WILL ALSO HANG ONTO SLIGHT CHANCE WESTERN ZONES MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...THOUGH THIS IS A TOSS-UP BETWEEN PERSISTENCE AND MODEL INDICATIONS OF SUPRESSED CONVECTION. WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...UPPER CUT-OFF SHOWN DRIFTING SOUTHWESTWARD ON MRF NEARING WEST TEXAS LATTER HALF OF WEEK. MAY NOT DRIFT THAT FAR WEST...BUT WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT EXTENDED WITH CONTINUED PERSISTENT TEMPERATURES. FRIONA 62/93/62/93 222- TULIA 64/93/64/93 211- BROWNFIELD 63/95/63/95 222- LUBBOCK 64/94/64/94 211- CHILDRESS 66/93/966/93 ---- ASPERMONT 68/92/68/92 ---- .LUB...NONE. BILLINGSLEY
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Lubbock
- When
- June 24, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County, Lubbock
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 33.583, -101.850
Thunderstorm wind blew down a tree and destroyed a storage building.
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
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Maine, June 24 to 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in Idaho, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 24, 2001
- Flood in New York, June 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 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: 5254412, 5254413.