Hail, Brazos
- When
- May 15, 3:10 AM CST
- Where
- Brazos County, 4 mi SW of Kurten
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.750, -96.317
Hail in Texas, May 15, 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
- $3,000
- 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 15, 2:40 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:40 AM CST, 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 340 AM CDT THU MAY 15 2003 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT IN THE DFW AREA HAVE GRADUALLY MADE THEIR WAY TO THE SOUTHEAST AND ARE NOW IN OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. GENERAL TREND HAS BEEN FOR THESE STORMS TO WEAKEN AS THEY ENCOUNTER A MORE STABLE AIRMASS...BUT SOME ARE STILL STRONG AT THIS TIME. CONCERN TODAY IS THAT THIS CONVECTION MAY LEAVE A BOUNDARY AFTER IT DISSIPATES THAT MAY HELP TO SET OFF SOME STORMS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DAYTIME HEATING IS STRONGEST. THEREFORE... WILL GO WITH LOW POPS AREAWIDE FOR TODAY. EXPECT PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AREAWIDE BY THIS AFTERNOON. WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW UP NORTH WHERE DEEPER MOISTURE AND A MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS RESIDES. WELL THEN WAIT FOR THE NEXT UPPER LOW (CURRENTLY MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS WESTERN ARIZONA) TO HEAD TOWARDS TEXAS. WILL CONTINUE OUR FORECAST OF BEST RAIN CHANCES FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY AS THE UPPER LOW AND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLOWLY MAKE THEIR WAY EASTWARD. WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOOKS TO REMAIN NEAR THE COAST ON SUNDAY SO WILL NEED TO PLACE SOME LOW POPS IN THE CENTRAL AND COASTAL COUNTIES IN CASE ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ARE PRESENT TO INITIATE CONVECTION. UPPER RIDGE BUILDING ACROSS TEXAS EARLY NEXT WEEK MEANS A RETURN TO WARM/MUGGY CONDITIONS. OUR NEXT RAIN CHANCES MAY COME ON WEDNESDAY AS A FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. BY THE WAY...TODAY MARKS THE OFFICIAL START OF THE 2003 EASTERN PACIFIC HURRICANE SEASON. 42/38 .HGX...SCEC ALL WATERS. PRELIMS... CLL BB 092/074 092/071 087 222 IAH BB 091/074 091/073 087 211 GLS BB 085/078 085/076 085 2--
Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 2:20 PM CST, 12 hours 50 minutes before
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 320 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY PROPAGATE SOUTHWARD INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT AREA IS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM BRENHAM TO HUNTSVILLE TO LIVINGSTON. THE PRIMARY THREATS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND COULD PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 15 to 16, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 15, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 15, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 15 to 16, 2003
- Flood in Michigan, May 15 to 20, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 15 to 16, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 15, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 15 to 16, 2003
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 15, 2003
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 15, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 15, 2003
- Hail in North Carolina, May 15, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 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: 5354520.