Hail, Lavaca
- When
- February 20, 11:30 AM CST to 11:40 AM CST
- Where
- Lavaca County, Halletsville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 29.450, -96.950
Hail in Texas, February 20, 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 20, 10:55 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 10:55 AM CST, 35 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1055 AM CST THU FEB 20 2003 BOUNDARY ALONG THE COAST WILL BE ENTERING OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES LATER TODAY AND SERVE AS FOCUS FOR SEVERE WX MAINLY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS AS COLD AIR MOVES IN ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LOW. WE WILL CONTINUE UNDER THE GUN FOR BOTH SEVERE WX AND HEAVY RAIN THROUGH FRIDAY. LATEST MODEL RUNS INDICATE SYSTEM WILL BE SLOWER MOVING OUT THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED WITH LITTLE WX IMPROVEMENT UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT. FOR NOW WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO CURRENT ZONES. .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 3/13/JB PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... A FRONTAL FLASH FLOOD EVENT IS LIKELY TODAY EVOLVING INTO A FRONTAL/SYNOPTIC SCALE FLASH FLOOD EVENT TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. OVERRUNNING GULF MOISTURE (RICH AND CONDITIONALLY UNSTABLE) WILL LIFT OVER SHALLOW COOL DOME ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. IMPULSES WILL EJECT FROM THE UPPER LOW TO THE WEST WHICH BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFLUENT ALOFT. THE RESULT WILL BE INCREASING CHANCES THROUGHOUT THE DAY OF SHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS. BY EVENING...SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS MAY EXIST...PARTICULARLY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE REGION. TONIGHT..THE UPPER LOW WILL MAKE ITS ENTRANCE WITH ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...INCREASING DIFFLUENCE AND COLDER AIR ALOFT WILL RESULT IN THE ADDITIONAL POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...THIS MAY ALSO OCCUR AS EARLY AS THIS AFTERNOON SO INCLUDED SEVERE POSSIBILITY FOR TODAY AS WELL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD END FROM THE WEST BY LATE FRIDAY MORNING...THEN CLEARING FROM THE WEST FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. A NICE WEEKEND IN STORE AS NORTHWEST TO WEST FLOW ALOFT DOMINATES. CLOUDS WILL RETURN EARLY NEXT WEEK AS RETURN FLOW BRINGS GULF MOISTURE. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE AREA BY MIDWEEK. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 057/055 062/046 066 8+92 DRT 060/058 065/048 074 8+90 SAT 059/056 069/052 068 8+90=
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 20, 6:00 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-211200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CST THU FEB 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY...EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. AS A WINTER STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT, AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE AND FLASH FLOODING BECOMES LIKELY. ALSO THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH OF RAIN FRIDAY IS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE WINTER STORM EXITS SOUTH TEXAS. FLASH FLOODING AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN UNTIL AROUND NOON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:29 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
- Lightning Strike in Texas, February 20, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Texas, February 20, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, February 20 to 21, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Texas, February 20, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Texas, February 20, 2003
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Montana, February 20 to 23, 2003
- Winter Storm in Idaho, February 20 to 23, 2003
- Winter Weather in New Jersey, February 20 to 21, 2003
- Hail in Texas, February 20, 2003
- Flooding in West Virginia, February 20 to 23, 2003
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, February 20 to 21, 2003
- Wildfire in Hawaii, February 20, 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: 5341658.