Hail, Live Oak
- When
- May 21, 3:32 PM CST
- Where
- Live Oak County, George West
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 28.333, -98.117
Hail in Texas, May 21, 2001
1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 2
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 May 21, 1:15 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 1:15 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 215 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 SHORT TERM...MSAS REVEALS SURFACE FRONT APPROACHING THE NRN CWA. EXPECT FROPA OVER THE CWA THIS EVENING/TONIGHT...AS THE CORRESPONDING UPPER TROUGH/LOW MOVES EAST ACROSS THE PLAINS. MOST RECENT GOES PROXIMITY SOUNDINGS INDICATE THAT THE CIN HAS DIMINISHED SIGNIFICANTLY. IN FACT...WDLY SCT CONVECTION HAS ALREADY OCCURRED OVR PORTIONS OF MAINLY DEEP SOUTH TX. FURTHER...THE CWA WL REMAIN UNDER THE RRQ OF AN UPPER JET STREAK. AS THE FRONT MOVES ACROSS... EXPECT IT TO TRIGGER CONVECTION. VERTICAL SHEAR MAY STILL SUPPORT STG TO SEVERE ACTIVITY...MAINLY ALONG THE FRONT. WL MAINTAIN POPS THIS EVENING/EARLY TONIGHT OVER THE CWA. BY TUESDAY...EXPECT SIGNIFICANT DRYING. EXTENDED...THE MRF CONTINUES TO STALL THE FOREGOING UPPER LOW...WITH THE CENTER OVER THE MIDWEST...THROUGH FRIDAY...THEN LIFTS IT NEWD SAT/SUNDAY. A WEAK SECONDARY SURGE/FNT STILL ANTICIPATED BY FRIDAY... HWR DO NOT ANTICIPATE PCPN OWING TO INSUFFICIENT MSTR. MARINE...FROPA EXPECTED BY LATE AFTERNOON FOR THE BAYS AND OFFSHORE THIS EVENING. STRONG NLY WINDS BEHIND CF WILL WARRANT SCAS FOR ALL MARINE ZONES. SCT TO NUM TSRAS EXPECTED AS FRONT PUSHES OFFSHORE DUE TO AMPLE MOISTURE...THETA E RIDGING...LIFT...POLAR JET...WEAKENING CAP...ETC. WILL ISSUE MWS WITH LATEST INFO ON FRONT. BY TUE AFTERNOON...HIGH PRESS SETTLES ACROSS THE AREA WITH IMPROVING CONDITIONS AND RELAXING GRADIENT. NO SCAS EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. ONSHORE FLOW RAPIDLY RETURNS BY WED AS THE HIGH SHIFTS E. ANOTHER SURGE OF HIGH PRESS SINKS SWD WITH WINDS BACKING TO THE NE BY THU NIGHT/FRI MORN. RETURN FLOW SETS UP AGAIN BY LATE FRI AS HIGH SHIFTS EAST. CRP BU 064/083 062/088 068 87400 VCT BU 058/083 060/088 065 87400 LRD BU 064/085 065/090 065 87200 .CRP...SCA GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275. 87 (SYNOPTIC) 81 (MESO)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 21, 2:40 PM CST, 52 minutes before
TXZ231>234-241-243>247-220200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 340 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH VALID UNTIL 9 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF ARANSAS...BEE...CALHOUN...GOLIAD...JIM WELLS...KLEBERG... LIVE OAK...NUECES...REFUGIO...SAN PATRICIO AND VICTORIA. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE ALICE...ARANSAS PASS... BEEVILLE...CHOKE CANYON...CORPUS CHRISTI...HOLIDAY BEACH... INGLESIDE...LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI...LONG MOTT...MATHIS...PLACEDO... PORT LAVACA...PORT OCONNOR...PORTLAND... PREMONT...ROBSTOWN... ROCKPORT...SEADRIFT...SINTON...SKIDMORE...VICTORIA AND WOODSBORO. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE BAYS AND INLAND WATERWAYS...FROM PORT OCONNOR TO BAFFIN BAY...AS WELL AS THE NEAR SHORE WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT TO 20 NAUTICAL MILES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF A DIME OR LARGER...STRONG WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AND EVEN TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...THEN MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY FLAT DOWN ON THE GROUND...PREFERABLY IN A DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN SEVERE WEATHER. GW
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:31 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Live Oak
- When
- May 21, 3:36 PM CST
- Where
- Live Oak County, Three Rivers
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 28.351, -98.125 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
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: 5247180, 5247181.