Name: Hail in Texas, November 26, 2001
Start: 2001-11-26T15:30
End: 2001-11-26T15:30
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 26, 2:16 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 2:16 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
216 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001

EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
DEVELOPED ACROSS REGION NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10 IN VICINITY OF
THETA-E RIDGE...AND ALONG 8H CONVERGENT AXIS WELL DEPICTED BY
AVN. MODEL OF CHOICE TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO BE AVN...PICKING
UP ON ONGOING PRECIPITATION PATTERN...MISSED BY OTHER MODELS.

UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN ON TAP THROUGH WEDNESDAY. 1000 MB
SURFACE LOW CURRENTLY LOCATED ALONG EAST KANSAS/NEBRASKA BORDER WITH
ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT EXTENDING SOUTH THROUGH KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA...
ARCING SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. WARM FRONT NOW WELL NORTH OF
THE FCST AREA FOLLOWED BY DEW POINTS IN THE LOW 70S. INTERESTING
NOTE...DEW POINTS FELL IN THE MID 30S YESTERDAY THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON HOURS...SO WE HAVE EFFECTIVELY SEEN A RISE OF 35
DEW POINT DEGREES PLUS OVER 24 HOURS.

FRONT MOVES INTO A SHREVEPORT TO HOUSTON LINE TOWARD MIDNIGHT...
FROM JACKSON TO BEAUMONT BY NOON TUESDAY...THEN STALLS IN THIS
REGION. EXPECTING CURRENT SCATTERED PRECIPITATION TO BECOME MORE
WIDESPREAD THROUGH THE NIGHT AS CONVERGENCE AND LIFT INCREASES AS
BOUNDARY MOVES INTO REGION. SURFACE BASED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL BE
PREVALENT ALONG AND AHEAD OF FRONT...OVERRUNNING TYPE SITUATION
BEHIND WITH ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS.

EXPECTING A VERY SOGGY TUESDAY WITH FRONT BISECTING AREA AND
INCREASING MID AND UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE FLOWING INTO REGION AS
ASSOCIATED WINDS BECOMES MORE SOUTHERLY WITH MID CONUS TROF
DIGGING. WITH DEEP MOISTURE IN PLACE...WILL SEE WIDESPREAD RAINS IN
A 2 TO 3 INCH RANGE WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS. ADDITIONALLY...
EXPECTING INCREASED UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WITH RRQ OF MID CONUS TROF
APPROACHING AND ASSOCIATED DIVERGENCE. WITH ALL THIS SAID...WILL MAKE
MENTION OF POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE AND HEAVY RAINS.

FRONT LINGERS INTO REGION WEDNESDAY WITH AVN CONTINUING TO FORM
SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTH TEXAS...TRACKING NORTHEAST INTO COASTAL
LOUISIANA. WILL THEREFORE CONTINUE HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL. MID
LEVEL TROF AXIS MOVES ACROSS REGION EARLY THURSDAY BRINGING A DRYING
NORTHWEST FLOW AND ROUND OF UNSEASONABLY COOL TEMPERATURES.

.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AEX 59/63/54/60/40/55/32 6999300
BPT 65/70/57/60/37/56/37 6999300
LCH 67/71/61/65/40/56/36 6999300
LFT 68/74/66/70/50/56/36 6999300

.LCH...NONE.

MARCOTTE

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Tyler

When: November 26, 3:30 PM CST
Where: Tyler County, Spurger
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 30.683, -94.183

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

More

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, November 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: 5272081.