Hail in Texas, May 6, 2003

Name: Hail in Texas, May 6, 2003
Start: 2003-05-06T07:58
End: 2003-05-06T08:50
Location: Texas

May 6, 2003 · NWS SJT · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 6, 2:13 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:13 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
313 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

.CURRENT...DRYLINE HAS RETREATED INTO THE HEARTLAND. JUNCTION SHOULD
SEE A DEWPOINT SPIKE SOON. QUITE A CONTRAST EITHER SIDE...WITH MID
30S AT JUNCTION AND ABILENE...AND LOWER 60S AT BROWNWOOD. MOISTURE
RATHER SHALLOW...FOR 850 MB PLOT VOID OF ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL. PER
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...SUBTROPICAL JET SKIRTING THE NORTHWEST HILL
COUNTRY AND HEARTLAND.

.TODAY...00Z MESOETA BRINGS A WEAK SHORTWAVE...EMBEDDED WITHIN THE
SUBTROPICAL JET...ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND HEARTLAND.
DRYLINE WILL MAKE THE ITS USUAL EASTWARD PUSH...BUT PERHAPS NOT FAST
ENOUGH TO IGNORE THUNDER THREAT. COMBINATION OF CONVERGENCE ALONG
DRYLINE...WEAK UPPER SUPPORT...MODEST MOISTURE AND DECENT
INSTABILITY WARRANTS TOKEN POP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND
HEARTLAND. NEW DAY1 OUTLOOK FROM SPC CONCURS. TEMPERATURES THE OTHER
WILD CARD...AS BONE DRIER AIRMASS ALLOWS THE WEST AND CENTRAL ZONES
TO REALLY HEAT UP. GUIDANCE REMINDS ME OF THE TEXAS LOTTERY...JUST
PICK A NUMBER...ANY NUMBER. RATHER THAN BITE ON INCONSISTENT
GUIDANCE...WE/LL LEAN TOWARD PERSISTENCE.

.WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY...DRYLINE TO MEANDER ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...
JOGGING WESTWARD INTO THE CENTRAL COUNTIES BY NIGHT...THEN ADVANCING
EASTWARD TOWARD SAN SABA...BROWNWOOD AND MASON BY DAY. CANNOT RULE
OUT ISOLATED THUNDER ACROSS THE HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL
COUNTRY. PERHAPS ENOUGH CONVERGENCE ALONG THE DRYLINE...COUPLED WITH
WEAK DISTURBANCES IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...TO POP A TOP OR TWO.

.FRIDAY-MONDAY...850 MB EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE RIDGE...
ANCHORED BY DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S...BACKS WESTWARD INTO THE
FORECAST AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. SURFACE DEWPOINTS LIKELY PUSHING 70 F.
MEANWHILE...STOUT UPPER LOW TO EJECT INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS...WITH
THE ASSOCIATED PACIFIC FRONT DRIVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
RAIN CHANCES LOOK PRETTY GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT WITH ABOVE SCENARIO...
ESPECIALLY WHEN CONSIDERING CONVERGENCE ALONG THE SURFACE-850 MB
PACIFIC FRONT. THINGS CAN CHANGE FOR THE WORST...SO INHERITED LOW
POP PRUDENT. WE/LL ALSO RETAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SATURDAY THROUGH
MONDAY...FOR IT APPEARS THE MOISTURE WILL NOT GET SWEPT AWAY. UPPER
DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO INFRINGE UPON THE FORECAST AREA...
AIDING DEVELOPMENT.

PRELIMS...

ABI 096/061/095/067  0000
SJT 098/062/097/066  0000
JCT 095/064/095/069  1111

.SJT...NONE.

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 4:30 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-071030-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
530 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FURTHEST SOUTHEAST
COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS ALSO A SLIM POSSIBILIY FOR THESE
TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEEDED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

A FEW STORMS MAY DEVELOP WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IN THE SOUTHEAST.
HOWEVER THE BEST CHANCES FOR STORMS...ALBEIT STILL A SLIM
CHANCE...WILL BE FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 7:26 AM CST, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
0826 AM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0812 PM    15 SE HASKELL             TX   FX TORNADO
05/03/03   HASKELL                        SPOTTERS REPORTED THE
                                          DEVELOPMENT OF A TORNADO
                                          WITH THE NEW MESOCYCLONE TO
                                          THE SOUTHEAST OF THE OLD
                                          ONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
                                          LARGE TORNADO THAT MOVED
                                          OVER LAKE STAMFORD. FX
                                          MEANS THAT AN F-SCALE
                                          RATING HAS YET TO BE
                                          DETERMINED.

0810 PM    10 SE HASKELL             TX   FX TORNADO
05/03/03   HASKELL                        SPOTTERS REPORTED A LARGE
                                          TORNADO. FX MEANS THAT AN
                                          F-SCALE RATING HAS YET TO
                                          BE DETERMINED.

0725 PM    HASKELL                   TX   1.75 IN HAIL
05/03/03   HASKELL

0721 PM    7 S HASKELL               TX   4.25 IN HAIL
05/03/03   HASKELL                        SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL

0720 PM    5 S HASKELL               TX   2.75 IN HAIL
05/03/03   HASKELL                        BASEBALL SIZE HAIL

0720 PM    8 S HASKELL               TX   FX TORNADO
05/03/03   HASKELL                        MULTIPLE VORTEX TORNADO
                                          REPORTED SOUTH OF HASKELL.
                                          FX MEANS THAT AN F-SCALE
                                          RATING HAS YET TO BE
                                          DETERMINED.

0711 PM    2 S RULE                  TX   FX TORNADO
05/03/03   HASKELL                        POSSIBLE TORNADO. CAR
                                          DAMAGED BY FLYING DEBRIS.
                                          FX MEANS THAT AN F-SCALE
                                          HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.

BRAZZELL

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Schleicher

When: May 6, 7:58 AM CST
Where: Schleicher County, 2 mi E of Eldorado
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 30.850, -100.583

Hail, Menard

When: May 6, 8:50 AM CST
Where: Menard County, Ft McKavett
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: PARK/FOREST SERVICE
Coordinates: 30.833, -100.100

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5357563, 5357562.