Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001

Name: Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2001
Start: 2001-05-05T18:55
End: 2001-05-05T19:19
Location: Texas

May 5, 2001 · NWS CRP · 3 events in 1 county or zone

1 hail, 1 tornado, 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

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 5, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001

SHORT TERM...APPEARS ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
FIRING ALONG THE DRYLINE W OF ABI AND SJT THIS AFTERNOON.
ALSO...CONVECTION IS BECOMING ORGANIZED JUST NORTH OF CWA BUT MOVING
NORTH.  ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD EAST AND SHOULD AFFECT N PARTS OF CWA
THIS EVENING.  RATHER VIGOROUS UPPER SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH
NORTH TX AND SHOULD SUSTAIN ACTIVITY WELL INTO TONIGHT.  WILL
THEREFORE...HAVE 30-40 PERCENT POPS OVER MOST N ZONES TONIGHT...20
PERCENT ELSEWHERE.  LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED IN SURFACE PATTERN
OVER NEXT FEW DAYS.  MODELS ARE MAINTAINING GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT FOR
SUNDAY...BUT SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE FOCUSED ALONG
STATIONARY BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL TX.  THERE IS STILL
ENOUGH INSTABILITY...AND POSSIBLY AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...TO WARRANT
POPS FOR DIURNAL ACTIVITY AS ADVERTISED IN THE CURRENT FORECAST.

EXTENDED...FRONT WILL NOT MOVE TOO MUCH FURTHER SOUTH AND SHOULD
BECOME DIFFUSE BY TUESDAY.  TIME HEIGHT PLOTS FROM MRF AND 12Z AVN
INDICATE MORE SHALLOW MOISTURE ACROSS AREA BY MIDWEEK.  ALSO...WITH
UPPER HIGH SHIFTING ACROSS AREA...WILL HAVE DRY WEATHER FOR
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. S/W ENERGY SHOULD APPROACH SOUTH TEXAS LATE
IN THE WEEK SO WILL LIKELY INTRODUCE POPS AGAIN ON FRIDAY.

MARINE...WILL GO WITH SCEC TONIGHT FOR ALL AREAS AS WINDS SPEEDS
HAVE DECREASE SOME...AND FORCING WILL BE SLIGHTLY WEAKER TONIGHT.
MODELS MAINTAIN A MODERATE SE FLOW...BUT THE GRADIENT WILL BE TIGHT
ENOUGH TO WARRANT SCEC CONDITIONS ON SUNDAY.

TIDE LEVELS ARE RUNNING .5 TO 1 FOOT ABOVE NORMAL...BUT THIS IS
POSING NO PROBLEM CURRENTLY...AND SHOULD DISSIPATE TONIGHT.

CRP EE 072/086 069/086 067 72222
VCT EE 069/081 067/083 065 72322
LRD EB 071/091 071/092 069 72211

 AP...72 SYN
JMC...84 MESO

.CRP...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 6:15 PM CST, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
715 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0505 PM    1 W CHARCO                TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/05/01   GOLIAD                         REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0625 PM    1 SW MC FADDIN                 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/01   VICTORIA                       REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0635 PM    4 S VICTORIA                   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/01   VICTORIA                       REPORTED BY LOCAL SPOTTER

COYNE

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:56 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Calhoun

When: May 5, 6:55 PM CST
Where: Calhoun County, Port Lavaca
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 28.617, -96.633

Tornado, Calhoun

When: May 5, 7:00 PM CST
Where: Calhoun County, Port Lavaca
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 0.1 yd
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 28.617, -96.633

Tornado reported on highway 283. Several telephone poles downed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Calhoun

When: May 5, 7:19 PM CST
Where: Calhoun County, Port Lavaca
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 28.617, -96.633

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.
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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Texas, 2001 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: 5247059, 5247164, 5247163.