Hail, Tom Green
- When
- October 4, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Tom Green County, San Angelo
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 31.467, -100.433
Hail in Texas, October 4, 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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 4, 5:41 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 5:41 PM CST, 14 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 641 PM CDT THU OCT 4 2001 BASED ON CURRENT COVERAGE OF SHOWERS/STORMS OVER CONCHO VALLEY... WILL SEND A QUICK ZONE UPDATE TO INCREASE EVENING POP TO 30 AND MENTION SCATTERED COVERAGE. .SJT...NONE. 19
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 1:10 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-042300- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 210 PM CDT THU OCT 4 2001 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT... HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE...THE LACK OF LIFTING MECHANISMS WILL PREVENT THUNDERSTORM FORMATION THROUGH TONIGHT. ON FRIDAY...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE BIG COUNTRY IN THE MORNING AND MOVE ACROSS THE REST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY LATE AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE COLD FRONT. ACROSS THE HEARTLAND AND PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY MAY BECOME SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. 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. 22/RUBIN
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 12 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:52 UTC.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, October 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, October 4, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, October 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, October 4 to 5, 2001
- Hail in Texas, October 4, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, October 4, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, October 4, 2001
- Hail in Texas, October 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, October 4, 2001
- Flood in Hawaii, October 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 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: 5270891.