Hail, Midland
- When
- May 28, 5:51 PM CST
- Where
- Midland County, 8 mi SE of Midland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 31.917, -101.983
Hail in Texas, May 28, 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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 320 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS DEPICTS BOUNDARY S CNM-S IN-NEAR MAF ARC. LIGHT NLY WINDS N OF THIS FEATURE WITH GENERALLY LIGHT SLY WINDS S. UPPER 50S DEWPOINTS ACROSS SE NM WHILE MID 30S-MID 40S DEWPOINTS ELSEWHERE. CU DEVELOPING VICINITY DAVIS MOUNTAINS WITH GRADUALLY INCREASING CI ESPECIALLY WRN SECTIONS. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NRN COAHUILA MOUNTAINS. 12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS DEPICTED SHORTWAVE OVER CENTRAL CA- WRN NV WITH RIDGE AXIS OVER CENTRAL/SRN ROCKIES. MODELS APPEARED TO INITIALIZED WELL WITH REGARD TO SWRN U.S. SHORTWAVE. PATTERN IN SHORT TERM FAVORS NOCTURNAL CONVECTION MAINLY NRN/NERN FORECAST AREA. BELIEVE MCS TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING OVER E CNTRL/NE NM AND MOVE SEWD. LOCAL MM5 SOLUTION INDICATES BEST CHANCE MEASURABLE RAIN ACROSS NRN/ NERN FA AND MOVING E BEYOND FA AROUND SUNRISE. SOME IMPORT OF LOWER LEVEL MOISTURE/UPSLOPE IN BIG BEND AREA SUPPORTS LOW-GRADE POPS TONIGHT. UPPER RIDGE GRADUALLY FLATTENS/MOVES E TUE. WILL CONTINUE MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NRN FA TUE WHERE H7-H5 NEG DIV Q AND SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS PROGGED. CHANCE POPS WARRANTED MAINLY NRN SECTIONS TUE NIGHT AS MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS PREVAILS WITH LI/S MINUS 2-4. SLIGHT CHANCE POPS MAINLY NRN/WRN SECTIONS WED IN VICINITY OF LEE SURFACE TROUGH. MODELS ALSO DEPICT MID-LEVEL LIFT PER H7-H5 NEG DIV Q FIELDS AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH LI/S MINUS 2-4 E OF PECOS RIVER VALLEY. APPEARS BETTER CHANCE SHOWERS/ THUNDERSTORMS WED NIGHT-THU AS SURFACE HIGH OVER WRN HIGH PLAINS PUSHES FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH THE AREA. MAX TEMPS TUE-WED TO REMAIN ABOVE SEASONAL NORMALS FOR LATE MAY. NO CHANGES TO EXTENDED PERIOD. BF MAF 68/97/67/92 2132 LSA 65/95/64/90 4232 E41 68/97/67/92 2132 6R6 70/98/68/96 2-31 MRF 58/95/57/91 2122 CNM 67/98/65/94 2-22 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-291030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 330 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL PERSIST ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO INTO TUESDAY. MEANWHILE...A WEAK COLD FRONT HAS STALLED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON... ESPECIALLY ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES UNDER THE UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL HINDER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT UNTIL LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AT BEST...AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. .THREATS... THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND MONDAY NIGHT ALONG AND EAST OF A AN ARTESIA TO FORT DAVIS TO PRESIDIO LINE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND ON THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. 44
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:49 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 Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Dense Fog in Florida, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in New York, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 28, 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: 5245759.