Hail, Wheeler
- When
- May 2, 4:31 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler County, Shamrock
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.217, -100.250
Hail in Texas, May 2, 2001
Severe thunderstorms producing large hail developed during the early evening hours across the extreme eastern Texas panhandle.
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
- 3
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 happened
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms producing large hail developed during the early evening hours across the extreme eastern Texas panhandle.
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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 3:08 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 3:08 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 408 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 ASIDE FROM THE FRONT BEING JUST A LITTLE BIT SLOWER AND TEMPS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN ORIGINALLY FCSTD...EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE ON TARGET. ETA HAS DONE THE WITH FCSTNG MOVEMENT OF FRONT WHILE THE AVN CONTINUES TO DO THE BEST WITH MID/UPR LVL FEATURES. THEREFORE...ONLY MINOR CHANGES HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO ONGOING FCST. COLD FRONT APPEARS TO HAVE BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS NWRN OK/ERN TX PNHDL/SOUTH PLAINS RGN...ORIENTED FROM NEAR BUFFALO TO SE OF CLAUDE TO NEAR TULIA. PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH APPEARS TO PARALLEL FRONT ABOUT 50 MILES SE OF FRONT WITH INITIAL CONVECTION INITIATING NEAR DRYLINE/TROUGH TRIPLE-POINT IN SERN HALL COUNTY AT THIS TIME. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED MAINLY ACROSS THE SERN 1/2 OF CWA TONIGHT WITH LULL IN THE ACTION TOMORROW BEFORE BETTER CHANCES OF WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO POSSIBLY HVY RA FOR THU NIGHT AND FRI. THIS IS PRIMARILY DUE TO NRN MEX MINOR WAVE LIFTING NE OVER W TX TONIGHT...THEN STRONGER MID-LEVEL FORCING AND UPR LVL DIFFLUENCE OVERSPREADING DEEP LOW LEVEL MOIST ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE THU NIGHT. FRONT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT NE AS WARM FRONT FRI MORNG WITH DRYLINE DEVELOPING NWD ACRS THE WRN PNHDLS DURING THE DAY. CONTINUE WITH THE IDEA OF DRYLINE LIGHTING UP AS IT ADVANCES EAST IN RESPONSE TO SWRN U.S. UPR LOW LIFTING NE INTO THE CNTRL ROCKIES/PLAINS. MAINTAINED SAT PRECIP...HOWEVER DRIER BL AIR WILL OBVIOUSLY ADVECT INTO THE RGN FROM THE WEST FRI NIGHT BEHIND THE DRYLINE. LOW CONFIDENCE CONTINUES WITH MEDIUM RANGE MODELS AS SOLNS CONTINUE TO DIFFER BY DAY 5. THEREFORE...WILL MAINTAIN SEASONABLE WX FCST FOR SUN AND MON FOLLOWED BY POSSIBLY COOLER WX TUE AND WED IN WAKE OF ANOTHER COLD FRONT. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. JH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 12:00 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-022100- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE AREA AT RISK IS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM CLARENDON...TO PAMPA...TO DARROUZETT. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT AND THE DRYLINE WERE IN PLACE OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. A MOIST AIRMASS WAS IN PLACE AHEAD OF THESE TWO FEATURES. FOLLOWING AFTERNOON HEATING... THIS AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE...AND POSSIBLY THE COLD FRONT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A ZONE OF STRONGER WINDS ALOFT ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO MOVE OVERHEAD THIS EVENING...WHICH WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...THE TURNING OF WINDS WITH HEIGHT WILL PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH WILL BECOME FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED ACTIVATION. COCKRELL
Special weather statement, May 2, 12:00 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-022100- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 CORRECTED LAST PARAGRAPH THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE AREA AT RISK IS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM CLARENDON...TO PAMPA...TO DARROUZETT. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT AND THE DRYLINE WERE IN PLACE OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. A MOIST AIRMASS WAS IN PLACE AHEAD OF THESE TWO FEATURES. FOLLOWING AFTERNOON HEATING... THIS AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE...AND POSSIBLY THE COLD FRONT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A ZONE OF STRONGER WINDS ALOFT ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO MOVE OVERHEAD THIS EVENING...WHICH WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...THE TURNING OF WINDS WITH HEIGHT WILL PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH WILL BECOME FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION. COCKRELL
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Wheeler
- When
- May 2, 4:48 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler County, 10 mi NE of Shamrock
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.317, -100.117
Hail, Wheeler
- When
- May 2, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler County, Allison
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.600, -100.100
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
- High Wind in Utah, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 2, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Excessive Heat in New Jersey, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Pennsylvania, May 2 to 4, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 2 to 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 2, 2001
- Winter Storm in Colorado, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, May 2 to 5, 2001
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, May 2 to 3, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Maryland, May 2 to 4, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Delaware, May 2 to 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 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: 5247423, 5247424, 5247425.