Thunderstorm Wind, Knox
- When
- May 27, 12:58 AM CST
- Where
- Knox County, Vera
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 33.633, -99.567
Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 27, 2001
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 4
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 8:30 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 8:30 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 930 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 TSTMS CURRENLY MOVING SEWD THROUGH THE TX PANHANDLE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE FA LATER TONIGHT. TSTMS ARE JUST NOW MOVING INTO AREA OF BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND EXPECT THEM TO CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE INTO AXIS OF BETTER INSTAB ACRS SWRN SECS OF THE FA. ALSO H8 JET EXPECTED TO STREGTHEN OVERNIGHT WITH INCRSG WARM MOIST ADVECTION EXPECTED TO AIDv IN CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. PREV FCST HAD THIS PRETTY WELL COVERED SO MAIN CHANGES WILL BE TO BOOST POPS A BIT HIGHER IN SWRN PORTION OF THE FA. 02 .OUN... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Knox
- When
- May 27, 12:58 AM CST
- Where
- Knox County, Vera
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 33.633, -99.567
Hail, Baylor
- When
- May 27, 1:15 AM CST
- Where
- Baylor County, Seymour
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 33.600, -99.267
Hail, Baylor
- When
- May 27, 1:27 AM CST
- Where
- Baylor County, Mabelle
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 33.667, -99.133
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, May 27, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 27, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 27, 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: 5249111, 5249112, 5249113, 5249114.