Hail, Travis
- When
- June 13, 5:59 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Travis County, Austin-Bergstrom Arpt
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 30.200, -97.667
Hail in Texas, June 13, 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 Jun 13, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 255 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUT SOON... POTENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER NORTHERN MEXICO APPROACHING RAPIDLY AND IS THE MAIN INGREDIENT FOR INCREASED POPS TONIGHT...WHICH WILL INCREASE FROM SOUTH TO NORTH WITH 100 PERCENT POPS FOR THE AUSTIN METRO AND COUNTIES NORTH. MORE CONVECTION CURRENTLY FIRING OVER WESTERN VAL VERDE AND ALONG THE SIERRA MADRES WILL MOVE EAST WITH TIME AND BRING HEAVY RAIN TO AREAS THAT ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING. WITH PWS 120-150 PERCENT OF NORMAL...WILL GO AHEAD AND PULL THE TRIGGER ON A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. WILL HAVE FFA OUT SHORTLY. SEVERE THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ON THE INCREASE AS WELL...WILL BE HANDLED BY A WATCH DUE OUT SHORTLY...MAINLY FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. CLUSTER MOVING EAST ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WILL BE MOVING INTO A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH CAPES OF 3500-5000 AND STRONG LOW LEVEL INFLOW. WILL MAKE A MESS DURING RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST FOR MONDAY THRU WEDNESDAY...WITH A TREND TOWARD CLIMO THEREAFTER. 11/03 PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 094/075 092/070 090 36433 DRT 096/074 096/075 094 26233 SAT 094/076 094/074 092 25433 .EWX...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 5:00 AM CST, 12 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...MAINLY VAL VERDE...EDWARDS AND KINNEY COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON ALONG A DRY LINE OVER WEST TEXAS AND SPREAD RAPIDLY EASTWARD. A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS EXISTS THIS EVENING THROUGHOUT ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AS A VIGOROUS UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. THIS INCLUDES THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METRO AREAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR ALONG WITH A FEW TORNADOES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:49 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
549 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0503 PM DEL RIO TX FLASH FLOODS
06/13/03 VAL VERDE LOW WATER CROSSINGS
CLOSED
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0520 PM BARTLETT TX 65 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/13/03 WILLIAMSON TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0525 PM MOPAC TX WIND DAMAGE
06/13/03 TRAVIS PHONE POLES DOWN
REPORTED
BY SPOTTERS
0559 PM AUSTIN AIRPORT TX .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/03 TRAVIS REPORTED BY
ASOS
VL/DCLocal storm report, Jun 13, 5:56 PM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
656 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM CRYSTAL CITY TX WIND DAMAGE
06/13/03 ZAVALA WIRES, POLES AND TREES
DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCThe 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 Flood in New York, June 13 to 14, 2003
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- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 13, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 13, 2003
- Flooding in Ohio, June 13 to 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2003
More
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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: 5360296.