Hail, Brazos
- When
- March 25, 9:25 PM CST
- Where
- Brazos County, 1 mi N of Bryan
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.683, -96.367
Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 25, 2003
5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $26,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 25, 9:05 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 9:05 PM CST, 20 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
905 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003
HAVE UPDATED THE ZONES FOR THE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT IS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A
LINE FROM LIVINGSTON TO CONROE TO BROOKSHIRE TO PIERCE TO EDNA.
HARRIS COUNTY AND FORT BEND COUNTY ARE NOT IN THIS WATCH...BUT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY GET VERY CLOSE TO THEM GENERALLY FROM
MIDNIGHT TO 200 AM.
.HGX...SVR TSTM WATCH ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LIVINGSTON TO
CONROE TO BROOKSHIRE TO PIERCE TO EDNA UNTIL 200 AM CST.
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.810 PM CST DISCUSSION...
CLOSELY WATCHING A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SLOWLY APPROACHING
THE VERY WESTERN EDGE OF OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA. UPPER LEVEL LOW IS
NOW APPROACHING THE DEL RIO AREA...AND THIS FEATURE WILL ALLOW
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS AS THE REST
OF THE EVENING AND THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. DESPITE THE LOSS OF DAYTIME
HEATING...THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES...ESPECIALLY
ACROSS OUR FAR WESTERN COUNTIES IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS WITH LOW WET
BULB ZEROS PER 00Z AREA SOUNDINGS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL
9 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS STILL EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS
PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS OVERNIGHT.
CURRENT ZONES LOOK GOOD. NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE AT THIS TIME.
FUTURE UPDATES MAY BE REQUIRED DEPENDING ON FUTURE WATCHES FROM SPC.
42/46/DH
PREVIOUS PRELIMS (NO CHANGES)...
CLL BU 053/071 049/080 058 820
IAH BU 056/072 050/079 059 840
GLS EU 061/068 060/073 064 750Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 4:00 PM CST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-261300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 400 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND NIGHT... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM THE WEST TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE REGION. THE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL...WITH DAMAGING DOWNBURST WIND GUSTS ALSO POSSIBLE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND SPREAD OVER THE REST OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT WILL AVERAGE 1/2 TO 1 INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF NEAR 3 INCHES POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON FRIDAY AS A STRONG CANADIAN COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG. IN ADDITION LOW TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING COULD BE IN THE MID 30S ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY AFTER 6 PM TONIGHT THROUGH 9 AM.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:45 PM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ163-176-195>198-210-211-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 345 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM CST... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...HOUSTON...MADISON... BRAZOS...GRIMES...BURLESON...WASHINGTON...AUSTIN AND COLORADO. A SLOW MOVING COLD AT 330 PM STRETCHED FROM NEAR SHERMAN TO DALLAS TO JUNCTION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE COLD FRONT NORTHEAST OF DALLAS. TEMPERATURES OVER THE HILL COUNTRY CLIMBED TO NEAR 80 DEGREES AND COMBINED WITH THE MOISTURE ACROSS THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS INCREASED. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NEAR AUSTIN AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THESE WATCH COUNTIES. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS COULD MOVE INTO THE WATCHED COUNTIES AS EARLY AS 6 PM THOUGH THE GREATER THREAT WOULD BE BETWEEN 7 AND 9 PM. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:46 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ163-176-195>198-210-211-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 346 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM CST... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...HOUSTON...MADISON... BRAZOS...GRIMES...BURLESON...WASHINGTON...AUSTIN AND COLORADO. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT AT 300 PM STRETCHED FROM NEAR SHERMAN TO DALLAS TO JUNCTION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE COLD FRONT NORTHEAST OF DALLAS. TEMPERATURES OVER THE HILL COUNTRY CLIMBED TO NEAR 80 DEGREES AND COMBINED WITH THE MOISTURE ACROSS THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS INCREASED. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NEAR AUSTIN AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THESE WATCH COUNTIES. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS COULD MOVE INTO THE WATCHED COUNTIES AS EARLY AS 6 PM THOUGH THE GREATER THREAT WOULD BE BETWEEN 7 AND 9 PM. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Brazos
- When
- March 25, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Brazos County, Bryan
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.667, -96.367
Billboard and building damage.
Thunderstorm Wind, Brazos
- When
- March 25, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Brazos County, College Station
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph) measured gust
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.600, -96.333
Wind gusts at Texas A&M campus with construction damage near science building.
Hail, Brazos
- When
- March 25, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Brazos County, Bryan
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.667, -96.367
Hail, Madison
- When
- March 25, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County, North Zulch
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.917, -96.100
Hail, Montgomery
- When
- March 25, 11:25 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County, The Woodlands
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.150, -95.450
Hail, Jackson
- When
- March 25, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County, Edna
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 28.983, -96.650
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5349138, 5349140, 5349137, 5349139, 5349141, 5349142, 5349143.