Name: Hail in Texas, November 15, 2001
Start: 2001-11-15T20:33
End: 2001-11-15T20:33
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 15, 5:25 PM CST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 5:25 PM CST, 3 hours 8 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
525 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

NEW TORNADO WATCH COMING OUT WILL INCLUDE ALL BUT WEBB COUNTY...IN
EFFECT UNTIL 11PM.  STRONG VERT SHEAR CONTINUES.  GOT A LONG LIVED
TORNADIC SUPERCELL THAT HAS TRACKED FROM LIVE OAK COUNTY TO THE
GOLIAD COUNTY LINE. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE WARM
SECTOR ACROSS DUVAL COUNTY MAY QUICKLY GO SEVERE.  ZONE UPDATES
COMING SOON

75

.CRP...FFA AND TORNADO WATCH TXZ229>234-240>247.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 15, 6:30 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
630 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

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

0625 PM    PETTUS                    TX   0.25 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   BEE                            SHERIFF OFFICE REPORT.

LAMARRE

Local storm report, Nov 15, 6:50 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
650 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

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

0645 PM    MINERAL                   TX   FLOODING
11/15/01   BEE                            ALL ROADS CLOSED WITH
                                          HIGH WATER RESCUE
                                          OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS
                                          BY VOLUNTEER FIRE
                                          DEPARTMENT.

LAMARRE

Local storm report, Nov 15, 7:13 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
713 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

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

0705 PM    5 SE CHARCO               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   GOLIAD                         SHERIFF REPORT.

Local storm report, Nov 15, 8:04 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
804 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

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

0625 PM    PETTUS                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   BEE                            SHERIFF REPORT.

BML

Local storm report, Nov 15, 8:14 PM CST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
815PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

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

0800 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   GOLIAD                         SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   TORNADO
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT OF
                                          TORNADO ON THE GROUND
                                          ALONG THE WEST SIDE
                                          OF HIGHWAY 183.

LAMARRE

Local storm report, Nov 15, 8:15 PM CST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
815 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

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

0800 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   GOLIAD                         SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   TORNADO
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT OF
                                          TORNADO ON THE GROUND
                                          ALONG THE WEST SIDE
                                          OF HIGHWAY 183.

LAMARRE

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:34 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Goliad

When: November 15, 8:33 PM CST
Where: Goliad County, Fannin
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 28.700, -97.233

3 MILES E OF FANNIN.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5273179.