Hail, Val Verde
- When
- April 18, 8:35 PM CST to 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, 9 mi SW of Juno
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.050, -101.217
Hail in Texas, April 18, 2003
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 18, 7:36 PM CST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 7:36 PM CST, 59 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 836 PM CDT FRI APR 18 2003 STEADY DESTABILIZATION ALOFT AND EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES IN THE TROPICAL CIRRUS PLUME IS KICKING OFF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. 00Z DRT SOUNDING SHOWS 1.40 PRECIPITABLE WATER, RIGHT AT THE SPRING TIME NORM FOR MEASURABLE RAINFALL. DRY LINE HAS RETREATED BUT WITH APPROACH OF STRONG VORT LOBE, THE DRY LINE CAN BE PUSHED INTO VAL VERDE COUNTY LATER TONIGHT. CAPES ARE IN THE 2000 J/KG RANGE. BY 06Z ETA AT LOW LEVELS AND GFS AT UPPER LEVELS IMPLY GOOD VEERING WIND PROFILE TO WARRANT SPC SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER VAL VERDE COUNTY. WILL LEAVE THE WINDS ALONE FOR NOW AND EXTEND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY OVER EASTERN HALF OF CWA. 06/04/DC 200 PM DISCUSSION... CURRENT WEATHER ANALYSIS... SURFACE RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL GULF PROVIDING SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS INTO THE REGION. THIS IS THE FOCUS FOR MOISTURE INFLOW AND THE ONGOING AREAWIDE CLOUDINESS. VISIBLE SATELLITE LOOP HAS AREAWIDE CLOUDINESS. IR/WV SATELLITE LOOP HAS GOOD PACIFIC/BAJA TAPE INTO THE REGION...PROVIDING MOISTURE AND CLOUDINESS AT THE MID/UPPER LEVELS. MODEL GUIDANCE ANALYSIS... GFS HAS SURFACE RIDGE TO THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY AND THIS FOLLOWED WITH A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE REGION BY 12Z SUNDAY. HPC PROGS MOVE A DRYLINE INTO THE WESTERN SECTION TONIGHT AND THIS FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT ON SUNDAY. SPC HAS THE WESTERN COUNTIES IN A SLIGHT RISK AREA THROUGH 12Z SATURDAY AND AGAIN THROUGH 12Z ON SUNDAY FOR THE HILL COUNTRY WITH GENERAL THUNDERSTORM CATEGORY AREAWIDE THROUGH 12Z SUNDAY. CURRENT WEATHER TRENDS AND OUTLOOK... MORNING STRATUS WILL ONCE AGAIN MOVE INTO THE REGION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. MAY EVEN SEE SOME LIGHT PATCHY FOG. THE STRATUS WILL LIFTS...BUT MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS WILL KEEP THE SKIES MOSTLY CLOUDY. PRECIPITATION CHANCES TONIGHT OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES DUE TO THE LOCATION OF THE DRYLINE AND CONVECTION FORMING OFF OF THE MEXICO MOUNTAINS MOVING EASTWARD. PRECIPITATION WILL AGAIN FORM LATE SATURDAY AND INTO SUNDAY DUE TO THE APPROACHING DRYLINE AGAIN AND A COLD FRONT. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 67/83/63/77/61 22200 SAT 67/85/65/77/63 20200 DRT 67/90/63/83/63 40000 .EWX...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 7:45 PM CST, 50 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 845 PM CDT FRI APR 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS TEXAS LATER TONIGHT. THIS WILL INTERACT WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THEY WILL RANGE FROM SCATTERED FROM SCATTERED FAR WEST TO ISOLATED IN THE EAST. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS VAL VERDE COUNTY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS TEXAS ON SATURDAY AND GENERATE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, April 18, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 18 to 19, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, April 18, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 18, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, April 18, 2003
- Flood in South Carolina, April 18, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 18, 2003
- Flood in South Carolina, April 18, 2003
- Tornado in Florida, April 18, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 18 to 19, 2003
- Winter Storm in Montana, April 18, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 18, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2003
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: 5349520.