Hail, Sutton
- When
- June 6, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sutton County, 10 mi W of Sonora
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.567, -100.800
Hail in Texas, June 6, 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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 325 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2001 LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING REMNANTS OF ALLISON SLOWLY DRIFTING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. OVER BAJA...A WEAK RIDGE CONTINUES WITH CLEAR SKIES DOMINATING THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. AT THE SURFACE...A WEAK COLD FRONT HAS MIGRATED INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WITH A DRY LINE ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO. SHORT TERM...ALL MODELS IN AGREEMENT PUSHING THE SURFACE FRONT THROUGH OUR CWFA OVERNIGHT. BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON...SURFACE WINDS WILL BE NORTHEASTERLY OVER MOST OF TEXAS. OVERNIGHT LOWS CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE LOOK GOOD. TOMORROW...SURFACE CAA AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PRODUCE AFTERNOON HIGHS CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMALS. BY FRIDAY...MODELS GIVE A HINT OF ALLISON RETROGRADING INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THUS...WILL CONTINUE SLIGHT CHANCE FRIDAY ALL ZONES ALONG WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES. EXTENDED...ASIDE FROM A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN ON SATURDAY...AGAIN FROM REMNANTS OF ALLISON...WILL CONTINUE DRY EXTENDED WITH TEMPERATURES ABOVE SEASONAL NORMALS. PRELIM CCF... ABI 066/085/066/088 0002 SJT 068/090/068/090 0002 JCT 065/088/066/090 0002 .SJT...NONE. HUBER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:00 PM CST, 5 hours before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-062300- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 200 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2001 ...NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT... TROPICAL DEPRESSION ALLISON WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE WEAK SUBSIDENCE OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. WITH LIMITED INSTABILITY AND A STRONG CAP...R THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 12
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:02 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
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 6, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 6, 2001
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 6, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Virginia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 6, 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: 5250960.