Hail, Comal
- When
- March 12, 2:30 AM CST to 2:40 AM CST
- Where
- Comal County, Bulverde
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.733, -98.467
Hail in Texas, March 12, 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 11, 9:45 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 9:45 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 945 PM CST SUN MAR 11 2001 UPDATED ZONE FORECASTS TO INCLUDE THUNDER IN THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND HILL COUNTRY FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. SPC SUGGESTS A WATCH MAY BE IN ORDER SHORTLY IF CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND SLIP SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST COUNTIES. ALSO MENTIONED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO AREAS AS WELL. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 2:10 AM CST, 20 minutes before
TXZ183-184-202-217-120825- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 210 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN COUNTIES... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR VAL VERDE... EDWARDS...KINNEY AND MAVERICK COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:30 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
- Tornado in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 12, 2001
- High Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 12, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5233919.