1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 17, 2:10 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 310 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE LOCATION OF WEAK COLD FRONT...STRENGTH OF CAP...AND POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF EMBEDDED UPPER IMPULSES WILL BEAR MONITORING FOR THUNDERSTORM POSSIBILITY NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. A SURFACE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS DRIFTED SOUTH INTO BIG COUNTRY...BUT THINK THE STRENGTH OF CAP WILL PREVENT DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. WILL INSERT A LOW POP FOR NORTHERNMOST COUNTIES OVERNIGHT...WHERE A FEW STORMS MAY MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST ALONG/AHEAD OF WEAK COLD FRONT. FRONT PROGGED TO DRIFT SOUTH INTO CENTRAL COUNTIES ON FRIDAY...BEFORE BECOMING NEARLY STATIONARY WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT INTO SATURDAY. WILL CARRY LOW CHANCE POP OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES FRI...BUT CAP STRENGTH MAY INHIBIT DEVELOPMENT. ETA BRINGS IN AN UPPER IMPULSE FRI AFTERNOON...AND LIFT FROM THIS FEATURE MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO OVERCOME CAP. WILL ALSO CARRY A LOW CHANCE POP FRI NIGHT AND SATURDAY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES...WITH PROXIMITY OF FRONT...SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. IN THE EXTENDED...UPPER LOW OVER BAJA CA/NORTHERN MEXICO TO WEAKEN WITH REMNANTS EJECTING ENE INTO TX. ANOTHER SURFACE FRONT/TROUGH ALSO PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO TX SUNDAY. WILL RETAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SUN...AND THIS MAY NEED TO BE UPGRADED IF LATER MODEL RUNS ARE CONSISTENT WITH MOISTURE AVAILABILITY. STRONG UPPER TROUGH TO DIG SSE INTO PLAINS EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH ACROSS OUR CWFA MONDAY. WILL INSERT SLIGHT CHANCE POP FOR MON WITH THIS STRONGER FRONTT. ABI 071/087/065/090 1322 SJT 070/092/068/095 0222 JCTB 068/093/069/094 0111 .SJT...NONE. 19
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail up to the size of golf balls fell in the community of Rule for at least 15 minutes, as a severe storm remained nearly stationary across western Haskell County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2001
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: 5249757.