Hail, Kinney
- When
- October 12, 7:00 PM CST to 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Kinney County, 20 mi N of Brackettville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.600, -100.417
Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, October 12, 2001
3 hail, 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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 12, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 250 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 AREA LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK FOR SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS. STORMS SHOULD BEGIN OUT WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING AND INTENSIFY AS THEY ENCOUNTER LOW LEVEL JET OVER HILL COUNTRY INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. BY LATE EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ALIGN THEMSELVES IN SQUALL LINE FASHION ALONG EASTERN (NORTH SOUTH ORIENTED) ESCARPMENT...MOVING EAST RAPIDLY...WITH TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLY ACCOMPANYING STORMS. INTENSITY OF LOW SHOULD ALLOW FOR GOOD WRAP AROUND CLOUDINESS THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY ACROSS EASTERN ZONES...WITH WESTERN ZONES CLEARING RAPIDLY TOMMORROW MORNING. WIDESPREAD LIGHT TO MODERATE PRECIPITATION WITH SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION POSSIBLE AFTER FRONT PASSES LATE TONIGHT AND THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH ABOUT LATE MORNING. MUCH COLDER AIRMASS WILL BUILD ACROSS AREA SATURDAY NIGHT WITH LOWS DIPPING INTO THE UPPER 30S OVER THE NORTHERN HILLS...40S ELSEWHERE. SUNDAY LOOKS LIKE ABUNDANT SUNSHINE WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S TO NEAR 80. A BEAUTIFUL WEEK IS IN STORE NEXT WEEK WITH ANOTHER SURGE OF COLDER AIR MOVING ACROSS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. SKIES SHOULD REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH NORTHWEST TO WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE 40S DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE WORK WEEK...WARMING INTO THE 50S IN THE LATTER HALF. HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE 70S MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WARMING INTO THE 80S WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 62/69/44/77 8700 DRT 57/75/46/80 4100 SAT 62/73/42/78 8400 .EWX...NONE. 02/18
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 12, 1:55 PM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-130300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 255 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS AREA IS ALONG AND EAST OF A JUNCTION TO HONDO TO JOURDANTON LINE AND INCLUDES THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METRO AREAS. WEST OF THIS LINE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COVERING THE REMAINDER OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS OUTLOOK APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC COUNTIES... ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL... COMAL...DEWITT...DIMMIT...EDWARDS...FAYETTE...FRIO...GILLESPIE... GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES...KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY... LAVACA...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE... VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON AND ZAVALA. A VIGOROUS UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL DIVE SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTH TEXAS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO FEATURES WITH DEEP GULF MOISTURE WILL CREATE A THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THE FRONT WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAINING POSSIBLE AFTER THE FRONT PASSES THROUGH. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DEL RIO AND LLANO AREAS BY AROUND 9 PM... AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO BY AROUND MIDNIGHT... AND KENEDY AND HALLETSVILLE BY AROUND 4 AM SATURDAY MORNING. THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES WILL BE GREATEST IN THE LATE EVENING HOURS. AFTER MIDNIGHT...THE TORNADO THREAT SHOULD DECREASE AS THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EVOLVES INTO A LARGE FRONTAL SQUALL LINE MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS LATE TONIGHT. SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE THREATENED AREA. && FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND... SAN ANGELO... FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Real
- When
- October 12, 7:30 PM CST to 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Real County, Rio Frio
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.633, -99.733
Thunderstorm Wind, Kerr
- When
- October 12, 8:00 PM CST to 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County, Kerrville
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.050, -99.133
Severe thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage in and around the city of Kerrville. Five aircraft were also damaged or destroyed at the Kerrville Airport.
Hail, Val Verde
- When
- October 12, 8:30 PM CST to 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, Del Rio
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.367, -100.900
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, October 12, 2001
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- Tornado and Hail in Texas, October 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, October 12, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, October 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, October 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, October 12, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, October 12, 2001
- Hail in Texas, October 12, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, October 12, 2001
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: 5269521, 5269522, 5269523, 5269524.