Name: Hail in Texas, May 29, 2005
Start: 2005-05-29T15:15
End: 2005-05-29T15:25
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 29, 2:35 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:35 PM CST, 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
335 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

.DISCUSSION...
BUSY NIGHT AHEAD AS THE UPR TROF OVR WEST CENTRAL TX SINKS SLOWLY SEWD
OVERNIGHT WHILE A S/W OVR NE MEX PUSHES EASTWARD INTO THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS
UNDERNEATH THE TROF.  AMS OVR S TX HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTN WITH
70+ DEW POINTS INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA...OR SOUTH A SFC TROF WHICH
LIES E-W ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY.  ALSO SEEING A PUNCH OF AIR AT THE MID-LEVELS
IN THE WESTERN CWA THIS AFTN WHICH IN ADDITION TO STRONG HEATING WILL AID IN
INCREASING THE LAPSE RATES THIS EVENING.  IN ADDITION TO THE SVR WX THREAT THERE
IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AS THE SFC TROF IN THE HILL COUNTRY SINKS SLOWLY
SWD THIS EVENING AND PROVIDES A FOCUS FOR TRAINING CELLS AHEAD OF THE S/W LIFTING
OUT OF MEXICO.  FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN
CWA THRU 7 AM.  APPEARS LESSENING CHANCES FOR CONVECTION MON-TUE...ESPECIALLY
WEST AS THE UPR TROF MOVES OFF TO OUR EAST AND A NWLY FLO PREVAILS...WITH NWLY
FLOW MCSS SKIRT OUR EASTERN COUNTIES OR STORMS DRIFT INTO THE FAR WESTERN CWA
OFF THE MEXICAN MOUNTAINS.  NO BIG CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS EXTENDED WITH LOW OR NO
POPS AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO TX AHEAD OF AN UPR LOW THAT WILL TRACK ENEWD
ACROSS NRN MEXICO AND INTO WEST TX LATE THIS WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AUSTIN CAMP MABRY              66  87  69  88 /  70  40  20  30
AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT  66  87  67  88 /  70  40  20  30
DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT           68  93  72  93 /  30  30  20  30
SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT       67  88  71  88 /  70  20  20  30

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM SUNDAY UNTIL 7 AM CDT
      MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ATASCOSA...BASTROP...
      BEXAR...CALDWELL...COMAL...DE WITT...FAYETTE...FRIO...
      GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES...LAVACA...LEE...
      MEDINA...TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...AND WILSON.

&&

01/11

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Kerr

When: May 29, 3:15 PM CST to 3:25 PM CST
Where: Kerr County, Ingram
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 30.083, -99.233

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

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Every storm in Texas in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, May 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: 5454422.