Hail, Lubbock
- When
- January 4, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County, 5 mi S of Lubbock
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 33.517, -101.850
Reported by Chief Meteorologist of KJTV-FOX34 News.
Hail in Texas, January 4, 2005
2 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
- 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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 4, 5:09 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 5:09 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 509 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 .UPDATE... HAVE UPDATED THE ZONES TO ADD A DENSE FOG ADVISORY. CALLS AROUND THE AREA HAVE REVEALED NUMEROUS LOCATIONS OF 1/2 MILE OR LESS. THE ONLY UNCERTAINTY IS HOW LONG TO ISSUE THIS ADVISORY FOR? FOR NOW HAVE IT OUT UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND WILL REEVALUATE THROUGH THE EVENING. BELIEVE AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF THE CAPROCK WILL STAY VERY FOGGY THROUGH THE NIGHT. IF THIS IS THE CASE THE ADVISORY WILL BE EXTENDED. PESKY SHALLOW COLD AIR APPEARS READY TO MOVE BACK TO THE WEST THIS EVENING WITH PRESSURE RISES ALREADY EVIDENT THE LAST HOUR. WILL HAVE TO WATCH THE COOLER AIR OVER OKLAHOMA AND THE NORTHEASTERN PANHANDLES TO SEE IF THE FREEZING LINE CAN APPROACH US. MORE ABOUT THIS THROUGH THE EVENING. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... DENSE FOG ADVISORY TXZ21>24-27>31-33>37-39-44 UNTIL MIDNIGHT. && 18
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 4, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 345 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 TXZ021>044-051200- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 345 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... WINTER WEATHER A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR AREAS BETWEEN SILVERTON...MEMPHIS...AND CHILDRESS...BETWEEN MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND 6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THIS AREA AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED AS THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE LIGHT AND SHORT IN DURATION. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE SEE THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY (WSWLUB) ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE AT 345 PM CST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:19 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Terry
- When
- January 4, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Terry County, 4 mi N of Brownfield
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 33.233, -102.283
Reported by an NWS Cotton-Gin Cooperative Observer.
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
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 4 to 5, 2005
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 4 to 6, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Missouri, January 4 to 6, 2005
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Kansas, January 4 to 5, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, January 4, 2005
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 4 to 5, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, January 4 to 6, 2005
- Flooding in Ohio, January 4 to 17, 2005
- Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in Iowa, January 4 to 6, 2005
- Winter Storm in Oklahoma, January 4 to 5, 2005
- Debris Flow in California, January 4, 2005
- Flood and Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, January 4 to 8, 2005
More
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 2005
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: 5432824, 5432825.