Hail in Texas, September 17, 2001

Name: Hail in Texas, September 17, 2001
Start: 2001-09-17T21:33
End: 2001-09-17T21:33
Location: Texas

September 17, 2001 · NWS AMA · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A severe thunderstorm over the northeast Texas panhandle during the late evening produced some hail.

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 happened

The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.

A severe thunderstorm over the northeast Texas panhandle during the late evening produced some hail.

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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 17, 3:45 PM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 3:45 PM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
445 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

MODERATELY STRONG SHORTWAVE BEGINNING TO MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL
ROCKIES THIS AFTERNOON PER LATEST WV/IR IMAGERY. AT THE SURFACE...
STATIONARY FRONT WAS STRETCHED FROM NORTHERN KANSAS WESTWARD INTO
EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...WITH MESO-LOW LOCATED IN SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.

CONVECTION INCREASING ALONG AND TO THE NORTH OF STATIONARY FRONT AS
WELL AS THE HIGHER TERRAIN ALONG THE EASTERN SLOPES OF COLORADO AND
NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. EXPECT STATIONARY FRONT TO BEGIN MOVING
SOUTH...PARTIALLY MASKED BY CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW...LATE THIS
AFTERNOON...ENTERING THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE DURING THE EARLY
EVENING. SHORT RANGE MODELS...AVN AND MORE SO NGM...APPEAR TOO SLOW
AND TOO FAR NORTH WITH THE FRONT. ETA SEEMS A BIT MORE REALISTIC...
HOWEVER...THIS IS BECAUSE IT MAY BE TOO FAST WITH THE SHORTWAVE.
THEREFORE...MUCH OF PACKAGE IS BASED UPON A MESHING OF THE AVN/S
MID AND UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...AND THE ETA/S LOW-LEVEL FEATURES.
STEEP LAPSE RATES...STRONG DAYTIME INSOLATION...AND INCREASING
SPEED/DIRECTIONAL SHEAR HAS CREATED VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR
SEVERE TSRA...WITH MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
DOWNBURST WINDS. EARLY ISOLATED CELLS MIGHT PRODUCE A TORNADO...BUT
AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES...CONVECTION LIKELY TO MERGE INTO LARGE
CLUSTERS...EVENTUALLY EVOLVING INTO MCS. THIS WILL CREATE
CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WILL BE
MENTIONED IN A UPCOMING UPDATE TO FORECAST. SFC FRONT WILL SHIFT
EAST TONIGHT AND ALLOW COLD FRONT TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE REMAINDER
OF THE CWFA. COOLER TEMPS FOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT DUE TO
/SLIGHTLY/ DRIER AIRMASS AND WEAK UPSLOPE LOW-LEVEL FLOW. DESPITE
DIMINISHING SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT FROM EXITING SHORTWAVE...WILL RETAIN
CHANCE POPS FOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT AS AFTERNOON CONVECTIVE
SNACKS SEEM TO SOMEHOW EMERGE ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN UNDER WEST
TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND UPSLOPE FLOW NEAR THE SURFACE.

PRECIPITATION CHANCES LOOK TO WANE THROUGH THURSDAY WITH NORTHWEST
FLOW ALOFT WEAKENING AND LOW LEVEL FOCUSING MECHANISMS APPARENTLY
ABSENT. WEAK SHORTWAVE MAY PASS TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA FRIDAY AND
FRIDAY NIGHT...PULLING ANOTHER FRONT SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA...SO
DECIDED TO RETAIN LOW POPS THEN. LOW CONFIDENCE FOR PRECIPITATION
POTENTIAL SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE TRENDING
TOWARD UPPER LEVEL RIDGING. THEREFORE...WILL KEEP DRY AND WARM FOR
NOW.

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

JH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:30 PM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
730 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

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

0440 PM    14 SW BOISE CITY          OK   1.50 INCH HAIL
09/17/01   CIMARRON                       REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.

TAS

Local storm report, Sep 17, 7:47 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
730 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

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

0440 PM    14 SW BOISE CITY          OK   1.50 INCH HAIL
09/17/01   CIMARRON                       REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.

0829 PM    TEXHOMA                   OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
09/17/01   TEXAS                          REPORTED BY F.D.

TAS

@RUKWBCe	/KDENNWUS54 KAMA 180147
LSRAMA

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
847 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

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

0440 PM    14 SW BOISE CITY          OK   1.50 INCH HAIL
09/17/01   CIMARRON                       REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.

0829 PM    TEXHOMA                   OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
09/17/01   TEXAS                          REPORTED BY F.D.

TAS

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:34 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Ochiltree

When: September 17, 9:33 PM CST
Where: Ochiltree County, 4 mi N of Perryton
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.450, -100.800

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

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, September 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: 5267786.