Hail, Caldwell
- When
- March 25, 8:52 PM CST to 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- Caldwell County, 11 mi SE of Lockhart
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 29.767, -97.533
Hail in Texas, March 25, 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 25, 8:50 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:50 PM CST, 2 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 850 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 WILL BE UPDATING FCST DUE TO NEW SVR TSTM WATCH BOX BEING ISSUED. NEW WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 2 AM. PRIMARY THREAT TONIGHT HAS BEEN LARGE HAIL. .EWX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #76 TIL 2 AM. 13/04
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 5:44 AM CST, 15 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-261200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 544 AM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS ALSO A RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FOR TODAY. AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES WITH VERY LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT. ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AS THE FRONT ENCOUNTERS AMPLE MOISTURE AT THE TIME OF PEAK AFTERNOON HEATING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF A BURNET TO COMFORT TO PEARSALL LINE. ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...ISOLATED TORNADOES...AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS UP TO 2 INCHES. THE FRONT WILL PUSH EAST AND FOCUS THUNDERSTORMS AWAY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:25 PM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 325 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 ...INCREASING CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE OVER THE NORTH AND WEST PARTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING TODAY...TO PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND NORTHERN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS IN THE EVENING HOURS AFTER 6 TO 8 PM...AND OVER THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM NEAR THE COLD FRONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND IN THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE MAINLY NEAR AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BURNET AND LLANO COUNTY...TO BANDERA COUNTY...AND TO DIMMIT AND ZAVALA COUNTIES. IN THIS AREA THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES COULD FORM WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ANY THUNDERSTORM WILL CAUSE FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS IN THE PRE DAWN TO EARLY MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY...AS THE THE COLD FRONT MOVES OUT OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SUNNY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY...IN WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT...AND ITS ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
Local storm report, Mar 25, 5:19 PM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
0519 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0512 PM CONCAN TX 0.88 IN HAIL
03/25/03 UVALDE
DCLocal storm report, Mar 25, 5:24 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
0524 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0512 PM CONCAN TX 0.88 IN HAIL
03/25/03 UVALDE REPORTED BY COOP
OBSERVER
DCLocal storm report, Mar 25, 6:04 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
604 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM 4 S BAKERSMITH TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 KENDALL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
DCLocal storm report, Mar 25, 8:04 PM CST, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
804 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0638 PM COMFORT TX WIND DAMAGE
03/25/03 NEAR COMFORT ON MILL DAM 1 HOUSE AND TREES
ROAD AT HIS HILL DAMAGED
BAPTIST CHURCH REPORTED BY HAM
KENDALL
0640 PM 4 MI W BOERNE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 KENDALL REPORTED BY
HAM
0655 PM BARTLETT TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 WILLIAMSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0737 PM AUSTIN TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 OAK HILL REPORTED BY
TRAVIS HAM
0740 PM SAN ANTONIO TX .75 HAIL
03/25/03 BEXAR REPORTED BY
HAM
0740 PM AUSTIN TX .75 HAIL
03/25/03 JCT HWY 290 AND HWY 71 REPORTED BY
TRAVIS HAM
0740 PM BARTON CREEK AUSTIN TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 TRAVIS REPORTED BY AUS SCHOOL
NETWORK
DCLocal storm report, Mar 25, 8:38 PM CST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
838 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0803 PM BEN WHITE AND I 35 .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 SAN ANTONIO TX REPORTED BY
HAM
0807 PM AIRPORT AUSTIN TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 TRAVIS REPORTED BY
METAR
0808 PM HWY 21 SAN MARCOS TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 HAYS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0809 PM AUSTIN TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03 TRAVIS REPORTED BY
HAM
DCThe radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:52 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
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 25, 2003
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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: 5346288.