Hail, Brown
- When
- April 4, 7:00 AM CST
- Where
- Brown County, 3 mi N of May
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.033, -98.933
Hail in Texas, April 4, 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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 4, 3:15 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 3:15 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 315 AM CST FRI APR 4 2003 CURRENT...SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING LOW CLOUDS ARE MOVING INTO MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. SURFACE DEWPOINTS ARE AROUND 60...UP FROM AROUND 50 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. DAYS 1-3...MODELS INDICATE DRYLINE WILL STAY MAINLY EAST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY WITH WESTERLY LOW-LEVEL WINDS THE FORCING MECHANISM. THE DRYLINE WILL CYCLE BACK AND FORTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS. THE NEXT SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE BIG COUNTRY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THIS FRONT AND THE DRYLINE MAY BE ENOUGH LOW-LEVEL FORCING TO OVERCOME THE CAP. THUS...WILL CONTINUE 20 POPS FOR MOST OF THE BIG COUNTRY FOR SATURDAY EVENING. OTHERWISE...POPS NIL. DAYS 4-7...LATEST MRF SUGGESTING NEXT COLD FRONT MAY AGAIN BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES TO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS NEXT WEEK. HOWEVER...NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH AT THIS TIME TO LOWER TEMPERATURES. WILL LET THE DAY-TIME TEAM LOOK AT THIS CLOSER. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 083/050 083/053 078 0002 SJT 082/050 085/055 080 000- JCT 080/050 085/058 080 0000 .SJT...NONE. 23/HUBER
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 5:21 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-051115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 521 AM CST FRI APR 4 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HEARTLAND EARLY THIS MORNING SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THERE COULD BE SOME SMALL HAIL ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS...BUT IT APPEARS THAT IT WILL NOT REACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT THE AREA BY LATE THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 27/BRAZZELL
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
- Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in New York, April 4 to 5, 2003
- Ice Storm in New York, April 4 to 5, 2003
- Frost and Freeze in Colorado, April 4, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 4, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 4 to 5, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 4, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, April 4 to 5, 2003
- Ice Storm in Iowa, April 4, 2003
- Winter Storm in New York, April 4 to 5, 2003
- Winter Storm in Vermont, April 4 to 5, 2003
- Wildfire in U.S. Virgin Islands, April 4, 2003
- Hail in California, April 4, 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: 5352790.