Hail, Victoria
- When
- March 8, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Victoria County, Mission Vly
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 28.900, -97.200
Hail in Texas, March 8, 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 Mar 8, 1:53 PM CST, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 1:53 PM CST, 6 hours 37 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 153 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001 PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH CROSSES THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA THIS EVENING FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT LATE TONIGHT/EARLY FRIDAY. SURFACE ANTICYCLONE QUICKLY CRESTS THEN DEPARTS FRIDAY. A SURFACE CYCLONE THEN DEEPENS ACROSS WEST TEXAS ON SATURDAY AND ALLOWS ONSHORE FLOW TO RETURN. LINGERING JET DYNAMICS/BOUNDARY LAYER FORCING AND CYCLONIC VORTICITY ADVECTION WITH ATTENDANT 500HPA CYCLONE SUFFICIENT FOR SLIGHT CHANCE POPS EARLY TONIGHT FOR FAR NE CWA. POST-FRONTAL MOISTURE AND WEAK FORCING PROVIDED BY 850HPA COLD FRONT WILL RESULT IN SKIES BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY ON FRIDAY. THESE CLOUDS WILL BRIEFLY BREAK FRIDAY NIGHT THEN REFORM AS ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE COMMENCES. A WEAK SHORTWAVE ON SATURDAY MAY PRODUCE SOME SPRINKLES. A WEAK WIND FLOW INITIALLY AND LINGERING BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WILL PRODUCE PATCHY FOG TONIGHT(MAINLY NE CWA). INCREASING BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WITH HEIGHT MAY BE SUFFICIENT FOR PATCHY FOG AGAIN FOR E CWA FRIDAY NIGHT. WILL GO LOWER THAN GUIDANCE FOR MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY(CONTIGENT UPON HOW QUICKLY IT BECOMES MOSTLY CLOUDY). LITTLE DEVIATION FROM FWC/MAV GUIDANCE OTHERWISE. WILL MAINTAIN PREVIOUS THINKING REGARDING THE EXTENDED. MARINE...WINDS WILL DECREASE AS FRONT APPROACHES THIS EVENING. BEHIND THE FRONT...GRADIENT APPEARS TO BE TOO WEAK TO SUPPORT SCA CONDITIONS...AND WILL OPT FOR SCEC ON FRI. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: CRP EE 053/068 054/074 063 85-00 VCT EE 051/065 051/070 060 852-0 LRD EE 053/072 056/075 064 85000 .CRP...NONE. 85/BB 84/MC
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Flood in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
- Hail in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, March 8, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Virginia, March 8, 2001
- Tornado in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Funnel Cloud in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 8, 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: 5230786.