Hail in Texas, May 26, 2001

Name: Hail in Texas, May 26, 2001
Start: 2001-05-26T19:45
End: 2001-05-26T21:00
Location: Texas

May 26, 2001 · NWS AMA · 8 events in 3 counties and zones

Severe thunderstorms with large hail developed across the central Texas panhandle during the evening hours.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 8

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 with large hail developed across the central Texas panhandle during the evening hours.

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 26, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
315 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

SFC LOW TAKING SHAPE OVR WRN OK PNHDL ATTM WITH CIRCULATION EXTDG
UPWARD TO H8.  WMFNT EXTDS SEWD FM LOW TO NR CDS.  DRYLN CLIPS NWRN
CORNER OF TX PNHDL AND EXTDS THRU ERN NM W OF TCC AND ROW...WHERE
ANOTHER SFC LOW DVLPG.  SHALLOW CU FIELD DVLPG OVR SRN TX PNHDL.
EXPC FURTHER DVLPMT OF CU AS WAA CONTS VCNTY AXIS OF HIR CAPES
RUNNING N-S THRU WRN HALF OF FCST AREA.  DEEP MSTR FLUX CNVGNC IS
ALSO ALIGNED SIMILARLY.  WITH CNVTV TEMPS ABOUT TO BE REACHED...WK
VOT MAX APCHG IN NWLY FLOW ALF...AND RESPECTABLE DIRECTIONAL SHEAR IN
PLACE...WL FCST NMRS TSTMS TNGT.  PSBL SVR WL BE MENTIONED DUE TO
ABOVE FACTORS AND INCRG INSTBY.

SRN SFC LOW NR ROW FCST TO DEEPEN AND MOV EWD DURG NGT...KEEPING MSTR
FEED AND UPSLP COMPONENT OVR PNHDLS.  DEEPENING SFC PRESSURES OVR ERN
NM ON SUN WL KEEP MSTR...INSTBY SUPPLIED TO PNHDLS.  BY LATE AFTN
SUN...DRYLN WL LIE ACRS WRN ZNS...WITH WMFNT RUNNING NW-SE ACRS FCST
AREA...SO LATE AFTN/EVE/NGT TIME TSTMS A GOOD BET.  MCS COULD DVLP
OVR SERN CO AND TRACK SEWD ALG WMFNT AS NOTED BY PREV FCSTR.

COOLER CONDS ON MON AS BNDRY MOVS SWD AND UPSLP FLOW PVLS.  CHC POPS
STILL IN ORDER FOR MON AND MON NGT AS DRYLN SETS UP AGAIN OVR WRN
ZNS...AND H5 FLOW TRANSITIONS TO SWLY.  TUE AND WED LOOK FAVORABLE
FOR CNVTN AS H5 SHTWV TROF PASSES OVHD SO HAVE BOOSTED TO CHC POPS.
H5 FLOW TURNS TO NWLY AGAIN WED AS NERN PAC CLOSED LOW CROSSES RCKYS.
AFT UPSLP DMSHS ON THU...SFC RDG BUILDS SWD THRU PLAINS...CUTTING
OFF MSTR FEED.  DRY AND WMR ON FRI AND SAT AS SWRN U.S. H5 RDG
BUILDS.  03

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NOVNE.

COCKRELL

The radar

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Event by event

8 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Moore

When: May 26, 7:45 PM CST
Where: Moore County, 3 mi W of Sunray
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.017, -101.783

Hail, Moore

When: May 26, 8:21 PM CST
Where: Moore County, 19 mi ESE of Dumas
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.750, -101.650

Hail, Hutchinson

When: May 26, 8:21 PM CST
Where: Hutchinson County, 8 mi NNW of Sanford
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.833, -101.533

Hail, Hutchinson

When: May 26, 8:31 PM CST
Where: Hutchinson County, 5 mi N of Sanford
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.800, -101.483

Hail, Moore

When: May 26, 8:35 PM CST
Where: Moore County, 19 mi ESE of Dumas
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.750, -101.650

Hail, Hutchinson

When: May 26, 8:45 PM CST
Where: Hutchinson County, 3 mi N of Fritch
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.683, -101.600

Reported by the Police Department at the the Fritch Fortress on Lake Meredith.

Hail, Moore

When: May 26, 8:45 PM CST
Where: Moore County, 20 mi SE of Dumas
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.650, -101.717

Hail, Carson

When: May 26, 9:00 PM CST
Where: Carson County, 5 mi NW of Mc Bride
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.567, -101.533

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

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5247429, 5247430, 5247431, 5247432, 5247530, 5247531, 5247532, 5247533.