2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 7, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 315 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF MIDLAND....TO SAN ANGELO...THEN NORTHEAST TO ABILENE AND WICHITA FALLS AT 20Z. SOME BOUNDARIES WERE INDICATED MOVING WEST ACROSS THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM OUTFLOW OF STORMS THAT INITIATED EARLIER THIS MORNING OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. SATELLITE BASED CAPES WERE 3000 J/KG TO 3800 J/KG AT 17Z OVER SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA...WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS (BIG COUNTRY). VERY LITTLE CIN PRESENT...AND A FEW STORMS WERE DEVELOPING NEAR MENARD AND ABILENE. SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. ANOTHER POTENTIAL AREA OF CONCERN IS FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL...AS STORMS WILL BE VERY SLOW MOVING...AND LOCALIZED AREAS COULD SEE LOCALLIZE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS...PARTICULARLY AREAS SOUTH OF THE BIG COUNTY. WILL HOLD OFF ON FLASH FLOOD WATCH AS THERE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A PROCESS FOR SUSTAINED INFLOW...LIKE A STRONG 850 MB JET OVER THE STALLED FRONT. STILL...WILL MONITOR THE POTENTIAL FLOOD SITUATION. FORWARD MOVEMENT FRONT HAS SLOWED DOWN...AN IT APPEARS AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS FRONT SLOWLY PUSHES SOUTH AND WASHES OUT IN THE INTERSTATE 10 AREA LATER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. WILL KEEP FORECAST AREA DRY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THOUGH WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO. KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...AS MRF MODELS INDICATES A WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER FRIDAY...AND WEAK FRONT SATURDAY. ABI 058/078/060/080 221- SJT 060/080/060/082 4211 JCT 062/080/060/082 4321 .SJT...NONE. 04
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-072230- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. WITH WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AS THE FRONT APPROACHES AND INTERSECTS WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WHICH MOVED INTO THE REGION LAST NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WITH FAIRLY WEAK STEERING CURRENTS ALOFT...HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM SLOW MOVING STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT. 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
An isolated severe storm dropped hail up to tennis ball size across extreme northwest McCulloch County. The hail broke all of the double pane windows and a skylight on one side of a house, allowing rain water to enter.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2001
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: 5249755, 5249756.