Hail, Smith
- When
- May 7, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County, 1 mi W of Bullard
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 32.133, -95.350
Near Teaselville.
Hail in Texas, May 7, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 7, 1:25 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 1:25 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 225 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 LAST OF THE SHORT WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER TROUGH CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER THE FOUR STATE REGION WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING MORE THAN SCATTERED CONVECTION...AND MUCH OF THE CURRENT INSTABILITY FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. SURFACE DEWPOINTS STILL RATHER JUICY SOUTHERN PORTION OF AREA...BUT MID LEVEL SHEAR IS WEAK AND LOW LEVEL FLOW IS WEAK AND DISORGANIZED FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT TSTM ACTIVITY. THIS AREA HOWEVER IS STILL UNDER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WHICH SHOULD HELP MOVE ACTIVITY DEVELOPING IN THE JUICY AIRMASS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ZONES. WEAK CONVERGENCE AREA WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN MOST ZONES ON TUESDAY...THEN AFTER THIS...MODELS AGREE ON DRYING OUT. TEMPS WILL BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMAL WITH FAIRLY WEAK NORTHERLY FLOW SETTING UP ALOFT. SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL RETURN AND DOMINATE IN THE LOW LEVELS... BUT SHOULD REMAIN RATHER WEAK. MRF MOS THROWS IN 20 AND 30 POPS TOWARD THE WEEKEND...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF FORECAST...AS THIS BARELY SEASON NORMAL NUMBERS WITH NO FEATURES SURFACE OR ALOFT TO FOCUS PRECIP ON. SHV 62/81/58/82 2111 MLU 62/81/57/81 2111 TXK 61/80/58/80 3111 TYR 61/81/59/82 3111 LFK 62/83/60/83 3211 .SHV...NONE. 14
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heat in California, May 7 to 11, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 7, 2001
- Flash Flooding in U.S. Virgin Islands, May 7 to 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 7, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 7, 2001
- High Wind in North Dakota, May 7, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 7, 2001
- Funnel Clouds in Texas, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 7, 2001
- Heat in California, May 7 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 7, 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: 5241150.