Hail, Jim Wells
- When
- February 15, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jim Wells County, Ben Bolt
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 27.650, -98.083
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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 15, 2:30 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 2:30 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 230 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 SHORT-TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)...MAIN CONCERN IS LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. AT THIS TIME...WILL LEAVE OUT THE MENTION OF SEVERE BUT IF RADAR TRENDS INDICATE BEFORE ISSUANCE...WILL NOT HESITATE TO DO SO. FRONT SHOULD BE THROUGH INLAND CWFA BY 10 PM AND OFFSHORE WATERS SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT IF NOT BEFORE THEN. SCA WILL BE NEEDED IN WAKE OF FRONT...AND WILL MENTION SHOWERS/THUNDER JUST AHEAD OF IT. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BESIDES WINDS ON SUNDAY...BEFORE DYING DOWN ON SATURDAY NIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES IN. BREEZY/WINDY AT LEAST EARLY PART OF SUNDAY EASTERN 1/2 BEFORE HIGH STARTS TO SETTLE IN. WILL LEAN MORE TOWARD AVN-MOS TONIGHT THEN DO A BLEND OF MOS GUIDANCE FOR THE LAST TWO PERIODS. LONG-TERM (12Z MON THROUGH SAT)...PLEASANT WX IN STORE FOR MON/TUE AS ZONAL FLOW ALOFT AND SFC HIGH PRES WILL CONT A SUBSIDENT/DRY AIRMASS. THE SFC HIGH WILL SHIFT E THRU TUE ALLOWING AN ONSHORE FLOW TO DVLP...WHICH WILL BRING INCREASING MOISTURE/CLOUDS AND WAA. A COASTAL TROF DVLPS BY TUE NITE/WED. THIS COMBINED WITH INCREASING PWATS...ISENTROPIC LIFT AND AN APPROACHING S/WV WILL PRODUCE PRECIP. AVN SHOWS A MUCH BETTER CHC FOR PRECIP THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. HOWEVER...DUE TO INCONSISTENCY WITH EACH MODEL RUN OF TIMING OF PRECIP AND STRENGTH OF DYNAMICS...WILL KEEP SLGT CHC FOR NOW FOR WED/THU. LATEST GFS SHOWS CLRG BY FRI AFT BEHIND A STRONG CF. HOWEVER...FRI MORN STILL LOOKS TO BE WET SO WILL LEAVE SLGT CHC. COOLER TEMPS EXPECTED FRI NITE/SAT BEHIND CF. PRELIMS...1ST PERIOD POPS SUBJECT TO ADJUSTMENTS CRP BU 045/059 036/064 048 86300 VCT BU 041/057 034/063 043 86300 LRD BU 046/063 039/068 046 86100 .CRP...SCA230-235-250-255-270-275. 86/GW..SHORT-TERM 81/TE..LONG-TERM
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 11:28 AM CST, 8 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1128 AM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES... DAYTIME HEATING CONTINUES...AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM WOULD BE SOUTH AND EAST OF A ROCKPORT TO MATHIS TO FREER LINE...WITH MAINLY SHOWERS NORTH OF THAT AREA. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH FORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING AT LEAST SMALL HAIL...IF THE ATMOSPHERE HAS TIME TO RECOVER FROM THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EARLIER THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THIS EVENING AND SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL BE REQUIRED FOR THE WATERS DUE TO THE STRONG NORTH WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY...AS A STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW PREVAILS BEHIND A COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. GW
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:45 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: 5341484.