Hail, Kinney
- When
- March 13, 5:19 PM CST to 7:25 PM CST
- Where
- Kinney County, Brackettville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.317, -100.417
Hail in Texas, March 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 Mar 13, 3:42 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 3:42 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 342 PM CST THU MAR 13 2003 UPPER LOW OVER THE ARKLATEX IS SLIGHTLY STRONGER THAN PREVIOUS MODEL FORECAST, AND THIS HAS RESULTED IN A MORE STABLE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. SURFACE MOISTURE REMAINS HIGH AND THE LOWER TEMPS SHOULD PRODUCE SOME LOW CLOUDS AND FOG BUT NOT AT THE DENSITIES SEEN THE PAST 3 DAYS. THUS WARM AND FAIR WEATHER WILL GREET THE AREA FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. BY SATURDAY MOISTURE POOLING BECOMES A FACTOR AGAIN WITH SOME FOG EXPECTED. THEN AS A STRONG UPPER LOW APPROACHES FROM THE WEST COAST, THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN AND REMAIN UNTIL A STRONG LEADING SHORTWAVE KICKS THUNDERSTORMS AND A PACIFIC FRONT THROUGH THE AREA ON MONDAY. WITH A BROAD TROUGH EXPECTED OVER THE CENTRAL US BY MIDWEEK, TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LOOK TO BE MILD AND DRY WITH SOME MOISTURE RETURN EXPECTED THURSDAY. PRELIMS... AUS 056/079/056/078/060 00--- DRT 064/083/062/083/064 00--- SAT 060/081/059/080/061 00--- .EWX...NONE 18/1
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 4:45 PM CST, 34 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 445 PM CST THU MAR 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT IS MOVING ACROSS THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WITH RELATIVELY DRIER AIR BUILDING INTO THE REGION. WINDS WILL BE FROM THE NORTH TONIGHT. THERE STILL MAY BE SOME LIGHT FOG DEVELOPING LATER TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL ON SATURDAY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF MORNING PATCHY FOG. WINDS WILL SHIFT AROUND TO THE SOUTHEAST AND WITH INCREASING MOISTURE INTO THE REGION A CHANCE OF RAIN WILL INCREASE BY SUNDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED MONDAY WITH A PACIFIC FRONT BRINGING GUSTY WEST WINDS TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:17 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 West Virginia, March 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, March 13, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, March 13, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 13, 2003
- Wildfire in U.S. Virgin Islands, March 13, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, March 13, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 13, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 13, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 13, 2003
- High Wind in Nevada, March 13 to 14, 2003
- High Wind in Oregon, March 13, 2003
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 13 to 14, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 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: 5347970.