Hail, Bexar
- When
- February 15, 2:15 PM CST to 2:25 PM CST
- Where
- Bexar County, 5 mi NE of San Antonio
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.467, -98.433
Hail in Texas, February 15, 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 Feb 15, 2:09 PM CST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 2:09 PM CST, 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 209 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 NEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING DUE TO THE ADDED SUNSHINE. WILL SEND ANOTHER UPDATE TO ADD MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR SOUTHERN COUNTIES WHERE STUBBORN LOW LEVEL SHEAR AXIS HAS REFUSED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST. THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS TO BE CLEAR OF THE AUSTIN AREA, BUT THE SAN ANTONIO AREA HAS A THREAT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS. WITH SUNSHINE SURROUNDING THESE NEWLY DEVELOPED CELLS, WILL ADD MENTION OF SEVERE AS LAPSE RATES WILL BE PLENTY STEEP. .EWX...NONE 18/3/23
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 6:00 AM CST, 8 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 AND GENERALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...ALTHOUGH STORMS CLOSER TO THE COAST WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:13 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
- Flooding in West Virginia, February 15 to 17, 2003
- Ice Storm in Kentucky, February 15 to 16, 2003
- Flooding in Tennessee, February 15 to 18, 2003
- Rip Current in California, February 15, 2003
- Avalanche in Utah, February 15, 2003
- Flooding in Kentucky, February 15 to 17, 2003
- Flooding in Virginia, February 15 to 16, 2003
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Mississippi, February 15, 2003
- Tornado in Louisiana, February 15, 2003
- Ice Storm in Kentucky, February 15 to 16, 2003
- Tornado in Alabama, February 15, 2003
- Flooding in Virginia, February 15 to 16, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 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: 5341210.