Hail, Jim Wells
- When
- June 25, 3:13 PM CST
- Where
- Jim Wells County, 1 mi E of Alice
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 27.750, -98.067
Hail in Texas, June 25, 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 Jun 25, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 230 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2001 SYN..H5 LOW CURRENTLY CENTERED OVER THE APPALACHIANS WILL CONT TO MOVE SLOWLY W THRU THIS FCST PERIOD AND INTO THE EXTENDED. H5 RIDGE OVER THE SWRN U.S. WILL BUILD OVER THE 4-CORNERS REGION AND PLACE THE CWFA UNDER A N/NW FLOW. ONCE THE UPPER LVL LOW RETROGRADES W.. IT WILL OPEN INTO A TROF THAT EXTENDS SWRD INTO TX. THIS WILL SHIFT THE UPPER LVL FLOW TO A MORE N/NELY. DISC..AFTER A MORNING OF ISOLATED HVY RAINFALL..CRP RECEIVED 1.92 INCHES...A RECORD RAINFALL FOR THE DATE..PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 1.03 IN 1996..SEA BREEZE HAS SHIFTED MOST OF THE PCPN INLAND. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCT CONVECTION WILL CONT THRU THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING UNTIL SUNSET..ESPECIALLY ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. BOUNDARY FROM OFFSHORE OF PTA TO NRN SAN PATRICIO COUNTY THEN INTO BEE COUNTY MAY ACT AS A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON TOO. WINDS BEGIN TO INCREASE IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING PGF. STRONGEST WINDS LIKELY ON WED. THIS MAY INHIBIT FORMATION OF CONVECTION..BUT STILL ENOUGH TO MENTION POPS. WITH NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES AND ANOTHER BOUNDARY HEADED N OVER THE WRN GULF..FROM CONVECTION WILL GO WITH WIDELY SCT TO SCT POPS FOR TUE. TEMPS WILL BEGIN A SLOW RISE DURING THE OVERNIGHT PERIODS BECAUSE OF MORE WIND. AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL BE HELD IN CHECK BY CONVECTION AND LEFT OVER CONVECTIVE DEBRIS. EXTENDED..MODELS CONT THE TREND OF H5 LOW RETROGRADING INTO NEXT WEEKEND. SPOKES OF ENERGY ROTATING AROUND THE UPPER LVL LOW WILL ALLOW FOR CONVECTION TO FORM AND MOVE S. WILL SEE SEASONAL TEMPS WITH CHCS FOR ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL. MARINE...PRESS TO THE WEST PROGD TO GRADUALLY DEEPEN NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. OVER THE BAYS...BORDERLINE SCA CONDITIONS EXPECTED TUE THRU THU...WITH SLIGHTLY STRONGER WINDS WED. MODELS KEEP WINDS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS IN THE SCEC RANGE. NOCTURNAL LLJ...WEAK COASTAL TROF DEVELOPMENT AT NIGHT AND MOIST CONVERGENCE ALONG THE COAST...WILL PRODUCE ISOL/WIDELY SCT CONVECTION DURING LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING HOURS THROUGH THU. AS UPPER LOW BECOMES MORE OF A FACTOR BY FRI...PRECIP CHANCES INCREASE. PRELIM NUMS.. CRP BB 074/091 074/092 075 1212 VCT BB 071/092 073/092 073 1312 LRD BB 075/099 075/100 075 2212 MSL..73 / TME..81 .CRP...NONE.
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:10 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
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 25, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 25 to 27, 2001
- Flood in Texas, June 25, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 25, 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: 5248978.