Hail in Texas, March 11, 2001

Name: Hail in Texas, March 11, 2001
Start: 2001-03-11T20:15
End: 2001-03-11T22:23
Location: Texas

March 11, 2001 · NWS SJT · 5 events in 3 counties and zones

5 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

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 Mar 11, 2:29 PM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 2:29 PM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
229 PM CST SUN MAR 11 2001

MAY NEED TO MENTION THUNDER IN THE FAR EASTERN ZONES THIS EVENING...AS
THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVERRUNS THE DRYLINE. PER GOES SOUNDING...CAPES
1500-2000 J/KG WITH NO INHIBITION OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AT THE MOMENT.
HOWEVER...MOISTURE RATHER SHALLOW AS 850 MB DEWPOINTS ONLY IN THE SINGLE
DIGITS CELCIUS. DEEPER MOISTURE CONFINED TO EASTERN TEXAS.

PROXIMITY TO UPPER CONFLUENT ZONE AND ASSOCIATED LARGE SCALE SINKING
MOTION TO RESULT IN BENIGN WEATHER CONDITIONS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. HIGH
PRESSURE ALSO DOMINATE IN LOW LEVELS...BLOCKING ANY MOISTURE INTRUSIONS
FROM THE GULF. MAIN CONCERN TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY...AS COOLER AIR FILTERS
INTO THE AREA. ETA BULLISH WITH COLD AIR ADVECTION...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
THE BIG COUNTRY. AVN/NGM NOT AS AGRESSIVE...WITH 70S ACROSS THE BOARD.
BASED ON CURRENT READINGS IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...HAVE DECIDED TO SPLIT
THE DIFFERENCE. INCREASING CLOUDS TUESDAY NIGHT AS GULF OPENS AHEAD OF
THE NEXT SYSTEM.

SPEAKING OF THAT NEXT SYSTEM...AVN TRACK FAVORABLE...TAKING UPPER LOW FROM
OZONA TO ABILENE ON WEDNESDAY. DEPTH OF MOISTURE IN QUESTION...HOWEVER.
NOT SURE IF GULF WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS LONG ENOUGH TO ALLOW FOR
MEANINGFUL RAINFALL. TIME WILL TELL. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH PROGD RIGHT
ON THE HEELS OF THE UPPER LOW FOR THURSDAY. MUCH COOLER FRIDAY AN8D SATURDAY
WITH LOWS IN THE 30S AND HIGHS IN THE 50S.

PRELIMS...

ABI 040/067/040/070 -000
SJT 043/070/039/073 -000
JCT 046/069/038/072 2000

.SJT...NONE.

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The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:14 UTC.

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Event by event

5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Menard

When: March 11, 8:15 PM CST
Where: Menard County, 7 mi N of Ft McKavett
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 30.933, -100.100

Hail, Brown

When: March 11, 8:44 PM CST
Where: Brown County, Zephyr
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.683, -98.800

Hail, Brown

When: March 11, 8:45 PM CST
Where: Brown County, Indian Creek
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 31.517, -98.983

Hail, McCulloch

When: March 11, 9:02 PM CST
Where: McCulloch County, Brady
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 31.133, -99.333

Hail, McCulloch

When: March 11, 10:23 PM CST
Where: McCulloch County, Lohn
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 31.317, -99.417

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, March 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: 5238830, 5238826, 5238829, 5238827, 5238828.