Hail, Jasper
- When
- May 21, 5:16 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, Kirbyville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.650, -93.917
Hail in Texas, May 21, 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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 21, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS AND VIS SAT SHOWS COLD FRONT FROM JUST N OF KAUS...KCLL...KGGG TO KHOT. 88D SHOWS TSRA FIRING UP ACROSS CENTRAL LA INTO MS. SVR TSTM WATCH 265 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR OUR CWA. COORDINATED WITH SPC...AND AGREE THE POSSIBILITY FOR LARGE AREAL COVERAGE OF TSRA FROM SE TX TO AL WITH THIS SYSTEM. LAPS CAPES INCREASING ACROSS SE TX... AND AS FORECASTED BY ETA. WILL KEEP SVR WORDING ALONG WITH APPROPRIATE WATCH HEADLINES IN ZONES. FOR THE FRONTAL PASSAGE...THE AVN IS THE FASTEST...AND NOT WELL INITIALIZED WITH THE CURRENT 18Z SFC ANALYSIS. ETA/NGM LOOKS BETTER IN HANDLING THE REST OF FORECAST...WHICH WILL HAVE THE FRONT BETWEEN LCH/LFT BY MIDNIGHT...AND CLEAR ACROSS THE CWA (INLAND AND COASTAL) BY 7 AM TUE. BEAUTIFUL...UNSEASONABLE COOLER WEATHER WILL BE IN STORE ONCE THE CLOUDS CLEAR FROM SUNRISE TO NOON WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA TUE. TUE EVENING INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING LOOKS TO BE FAIRLY COOL WITH LOWS APPROACHING RECORD LOWS IN A FEW PLACES. THESE RECORD LOWS ARE: AEX 50 IN 1954 BPT 56 IN 1967 LCH 55 IN 1929 LFT 56 IN 1954 WHILE TEMPS ARE FORECASTED TO BE ABOUT 3 TO 5 DEGREES ABOVE THESE VALUES...A FEW LOW AREAS WITH EXCELLENT COOL AIR DRAINAGE UNDER CALM WIND CONDITIONS COULD REACH THESE RECORDS. THE WEEK OF THE FRONTS. CLOUDS WILL INCREASE BY THU MORNING WITH ANOTHER FRONT TO MOVE THRU THE AREA BY THU AFTERNOON...GENERATING TSRA FOR THU AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER...THIS FRONT DOSENT LOOK AS POTENT AS FAR AS COOLER AIR BEHIND IT. UPPER TROF/CUTOFF LOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE EASTERN US FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...KEEPING A NW FLOW WITH MINOR VORT MAXES ADVECTING SE. THIS WILL KEEP PC/MC CONDITIONS WITH A CHANCE FOR SHRA/TSRA DURING THIS PERIOD. 8 .LCH...SCA...GMZ450-455-470-475 PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 55/78/52/84/62 60000 BPT 60/81/58/84/66 60000 LCH 59/80/57/84/65 60000 LFT 59/80/57/84/64 60000
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 21, 1:45 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-220300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... ...NEAR RECORD COLD TEMPERATURES TUESDAY NIGHT... AN UNUSUALLY STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF LOUISIANA THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BE MOVING INTO A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS...GENERATING A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. WHILE THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES IS NOT VERY HIGH...AN ISOLATED WEAK TORNADO CANT BE RULED OUT. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH 1 TO 2 INCH RAINFALL TOTALS EXPECTED. IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...NEAR RECORD COLD TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY MORNING AS A COLD CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. LOW TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY MORNING WILL RANGE FROM NEAR 50 DEGREES ACROSS THE LAKES AREA OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TO THE UPPER 50S ALONG THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL LOUISIANA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:17 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21 to 22, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Dense Fog in Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 21, 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: 5244529.