Hail, Cochran
- When
- August 21, 6:01 PM CST
- Where
- Cochran County, 2 mi N of Morton
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Crop damage
- $150,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.750, -102.767
Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
Hail in Texas, August 21, 2004
4 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- $325,000
- Events
- 4
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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 21, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 315 PM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004 .SHORT TERM... MUCH OF THE SPLNS HAVE SLOWLY CLEARED OUT AFTER THE MORNING CLOUDS/SCT STORMS. LOOKS LIKE THE SE COUNTIES ARE FILLING IN WITH LOW CLOUDS AGAIN AFTER SEEING SOME SUN WITH TEMPS GETTING TO AROUND 80. 18Z RUC FCST SNDGS SHOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN THE MID 80S ACROSS THE SRN COUNTIES EARLY THIS EVE. WITH THE BL ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS STABILIZED BY THE MORNING CONVECTION...NOT SURE WHETHER IT CAN RECOVER IN TIME FOR ANY SFC-BASED CONVECTION THIS EVE. WILL WATCH CAREFULLY AS STORM DVLPMNT IS CURRENTLY OCCURRING TO THE SOUTH AROUND SWEETWATER...FCST CAPES ARE PRETTY HIGH IN THIS AREA IF THEY CAN CONTINUE TO HEAT UP. SEVERAL SMALL-SCALE WAVES WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE MEAN WNW FLOW ACROSS THE WRN AND CENTRAL US. AS WE FOUND OUT THIS MORNING...TIMING AND PATH OF THESE SMALLER WAVES CAN BE TRICKY. ONE SUCH WAVE IS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE 4-CORNERS REGION. SAT SHOWS CONVECTION IS STARTING TO FIRE ACROSS THE NM MTNS AGAIN. FOR TONIGHT...WITH THE APPROACH OF THE WAVE...INCREASED LLJ AND WEAK ISEN LIFT...KEEPING A CHC OF TSTMS OVERNIGHT SEEMS WARRANTED. LOW CLOUDS RAPIDLY FILLED IN AROUND MIDNIGHT YSDY...DID NOT GO WITH QUITE AS AGGRESSIVE WITH THEM TONIGHT...BUT CERTAINLY MAY SEE SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY OFF THE CAPROCK...SOCKED IN BY SUN MORNING FOR A WHILE. IT LOOKS LIKE INCREASED WESTERLY FLOW TOMORROW BEHIND SHTWV WILL INDUCE A LEE-SIDE TROF STRETCHING SOUTH INTO THE WRN SPLNS THUS INCREASE SRLY WINDS...REDUCING ATMOS MOISTURE A BIT AND AIDING TO WARM THE SPLNS UP. WE MAY SEE THE FIRST 90 DEGREE TEMP IN 16 DAYS AT LBB IF LOW CLOUDS DO NOT LAST VERY LONG. ALTHOUGH NOTHING TO PIN DOWN CONVECTIVE CHCS...WITH THE WARMER TEMPS AND A BIT OF TROFFINESS LINGERING OVER THE AREA...SCT TSTM DVLPMNT DURING THE LATE AFTN LOOKS POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS. .LONG TERM... POLAR VORTEX OVER HUDSON BAY CANADA WILL FINALLY BEGIN MOVING EASTWARD RESULTING IN A MAJOR PATTERN CHANGE OVER THE LOWER 48 EARLY NEXT WEEK. HEIGHTS WILL RISE FROM EASTERN CANADA ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD...WHILE AN UPPER TROUGH WILL TAKE SHAPE ACROSS THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. WEST TEXAS WILL BEGIN TO SEE MORE TYPICAL AUGUST WEATHER WITH DIMINISHING RAIN CHANCES. UPPER HEIGHTS WILL RISE MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH A S/SW LOW LEVEL WIND...SO 90 DEGREE DAYTIME HIGHS WILL LIKELY RETURN. CERTAINLY CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUT MAY BEGIN TO SEE STRENGTHENING LOW TO MID LEVEL CAP WHICH WILL MAKE DEEP MOIST CONVECTION HARDER TO COME BY. ALL IN ALL...PREVIOUS FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE WITH ONLY MINOR TWEAKS. GFS DOES BRING SOME SUB TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER WEST TEXAS MID WEEK WITH MINOR SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE. AS MAIN UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS OVER THE WEST WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...MAY SEE WINDS INCREASE FROM THE SOUTH WITH DEEPENING LEE SIDE SURFACE TROUGH. FLOW IS PROGGED TO FLATTEN TOWARD THE END OF THE 7 DAY FCST PERIOD AS UPPER TROUGH LIFTS EASTWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 61 87 62 91 / 30 10 20 10 TULIA 62 88 66 91 / 30 10 20 10 PLAINVIEW 63 88 66 92 / 30 10 20 10 LEVELLAND 64 90 65 93 / 30 10 20 10 LUBBOCK 64 90 66 93 / 30 20 20 10 BROWNFIELD 66 90 67 94 / 30 20 20 10 CHILDRESS 66 91 69 94 / 30 20 20 10 SPUR 67 91 69 94 / 30 20 20 10 ASPERMONT 68 91 70 94 / 30 20 20 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 33/06
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 4:58 AM CST, 13 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 558 AM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004 CORRECTED SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT TXZ021>044-221100- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 558 AM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... CONVECTIVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT. WITH DEW POINTS GENERALLY REMAINING IN THE 60S...MODERATE AMOUNTS OF INSTABLITY ARE EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT. HOWEVER WIND SHEAR SHOULD BE LESS THAN IN RECENT DAYS RESULTING IN LESS ORGANIZATION OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF INSTABLILITY EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT...THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS THAT APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:02 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cochran
- When
- August 21, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cochran County, Lehman
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.617, -102.800
Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
Hail, Cochran
- When
- August 21, 7:01 PM CST
- Where
- Cochran County, 3 mi S of Lehman
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.567, -102.800
Hail, Motley
- When
- August 21, 7:08 PM CST
- Where
- Motley County, 2 mi E of Flomot
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Crop damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.217, -100.950
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
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- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 21, 2004
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, August 21 to 22, 2004
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: 5417828, 5417829, 5417830, 5417831.