Hail, Maverick
- When
- May 5, 7:45 PM CST to 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Maverick County, El Indio
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 28.517, -100.317
Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 5, 1:40 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:40 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 240 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001 SHOWERS/TSTMS MOVG NWD INTO THE CWA THIS AFTN ALONG LAST NIGHTS OLD BOUNDARY WITH JUICY 70-75 DEGREE DEW PTS FEEDING INTO THESE STORMS. SINCE THESE STORMS PARTIALLY THERMALLY DRIVEN...EXPECT A DECREASE IN THE LATE EVENING HOURS. HOWEVER DYNAMICALLY DRIVEN STORMS OVER CENTRAL TX FROM A S/W ENERGY KICKING OUT OF NM INTO N TX THIS AFTN AND EVENING WILL SKIRT THE NRN CWA WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR STORMS TO CONT THRU LATE TONIGHT INTO THE ERN CWA. DURATION OF CONVECTION TONIGHT AND A SOAKED GROUND WILL PROMPT THE NEED FOR AN FFA FOR MUCH OF THE NRN AND ERN CWA OVERNIGHT...ALONG WITH THE MENTION OF SVR MAINLY NRN CWA ON THE TAIL END OF S/W AND A STALLING DRY LINE. BEYOND TONIGHT...AN UPR TROF OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. DOWN TO TX TO MOVE SLOWLY EWD WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO OR JUST NORTH OF THE CWA...SO WILL KEEP THE CHC RW/TRW DUE TO LOWER LEVELS REMAINING MOIST AND S/WS DROPPING SEWD IN THE NLY FLOW ALOFT. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 068/084/066/081 6533 DRT 066/089/067/086 3212 SAT 067/085/068/082 6533 .EWX...FFA FOR ALL BUT THE SWRN CWA THRU TONIGHT. 1/16
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 5, 7:02 PM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
802 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 PM MONTELL TX FLASH FLOODS
05/04/01 UVALDE HIGHWAY 55 AT MONTELL
CLOSED. STILL CLOSED AT
05/05/01 1730. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
1105 PM UVALDE TX FLASH FLOODS
05/04/01 UVALDE WATER OVER THE ROAD ON
COUNTY ROADS 416 AND 414.
WATER OVER THE ROAD ON FM
1051 AND 2090. WATER STILL
OVER THE ROAD AT 05/05/01
530 PM. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0345 PM KENEDY TX FLASH FLOODS 05/05/01
KARNES HIGHWAY 72E AND 72W
CLOSED BETWEEN KENEDY
AND RUNGE. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
0430 PM YOAKUM TX FLASH FLOODS
05/05/01 LAVACA 6 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2
1/2 HOURS AT JCT HIGHWAY
77N AND 111S. WATER OVER
THE ROAD. REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER
0430 PM YOAKUM TX FLASH FLOODS
05/05/01 LAVACA COUNTY ROADS 436, 441, 444
CLOSED. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0530 PM LEAKEY TX FLASH FLOODS
05/05/01 REAL LOWER FM 1120
CLOSED. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0622 PM TERRYVILLE TX FLASH FLOODS
05/05/01 DEWITT HIGHWAY 682 CLOSED FROM
1447 TO 77. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCThe radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Maverick
- When
- May 5, 7:50 PM CST to 7:51 PM CST
- Where
- Maverick County, 1 mi N of El Indio
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 28.533, -100.317
The small, and short-lived tornado was spotted by an Eagle Pass policeman in an open area near El Indio. It caused no damage.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 5, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2001Warnings 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: 5243871, 5243870.