Hail, Archer
- When
- October 1, 12:35 AM CST
- Where
- Archer County, 5 mi W of Archer City
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 33.600, -98.717
This was part of a severe weather event that began during the early evening hours of September 30, 2005.
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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.
The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
This was part of a severe weather event that began during the early evening hours of September 30, 2005.
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 30, 7:36 PM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 836 PM CDT FRI SEP 30 2005 .UPDATE... UPR LOW OVR PANHANDLES WILL SLOWLY DRIFT EAST OVRNITE. STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED NEAR LOW IN NW OK SO HAVE INCREASED POPS IN THIS AREA. LLJ DEVELOPING WILL AID IN ADDITIONAL SHWR/TSTMS OVERNITE SPREADING EASTWARD ACROSS FA. OVERALL...REST OF FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO HOURLY GRIDS TO SHOW CURRENT TRENDS. WILL SEND UPDATE SHORTLY. MAXWELL && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 214 PM CDT FRI SEP 30 2005) DISCUSSION... UPPER LOW CONT TO TRACK EAST ACROSS E NM INTO W TX THIS AFTN. HAVE ALREADY SEEN SOME ELEVATED SHWR/TSTM ACTIVITY TODAY AND EXPECT THIS TO CONT... WITH STORMS EVENTUALLY BECOMING SFC BASED BY LATE THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING. MODELS CONT TO SHOW CONSISTENCY IN DEVELOPING STORM COMPLEX ACROSS OUR SOUTHWEST AND THEN SPREADING IT NE OVERNIGHT. THINK MODELS ARE OVERDOING PRECIP AMOUNTS...BUT COULD STILL SEE A SWATH OF 1 TO 1 1/2 FROM SW INTO C OK TONIGHT. LARGER AREA OF PRECIP SHOULD PUSH INTO EASTERN SECTIONS OF OK BY SAT AFTN... BUT AS UPPER LOW BEGINS TO MOVE MORE NE THAN E TOMORROW ENOUGH FORCING WILL REMAIN IN AREA THAT WE COULD SEE SOME REDEVELOPMENT BACK TOWARD CENTRAL SECTIONS OF OK SAT AFTN. WILL KEEP SOME LOWER POPS GOING INTO SAT NIGHT ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS. THINGS DRY OUT AND WARM UP FOR SECOND HALF OF WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK BEFORE ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH THROUGH THE PLAINS BY MID WEEK. LATEST RUNS SLOW FRONTAL PASSAGE DOWN A FEW HOURS AND WILL MAKE CHANGES BASED ON THIS SLOWER PROGRESSION. WILL KEEP SOME PRECIP CHANCES INTO WED NIGHT WITH A NICE COOL DOWN BEGINNING ON WED ACROSS THE NORTH AND CONT ON THU/FRI. TEMP FORECAST FOR WED COULD BE ANOTHER DAY LIKE THIS LAST WED... WHEN WE SAW 100 DEGREE TEMPS ALONG THE RED RIVER AND TEMPS FALLING INTO THE 60S IN THE NW... IF STRONG LOW LEVEL THERMAL RIDGE DEVELOPS SOUTH OF SFC FRONT. && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 25/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
736 PM CDT FRI SEP 30 2005
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-011300-
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN AND
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND ALL OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
LOCATIONS...
THE SEVERE RISK AREA COVERS LOCATIONS NEAR AND WEST OF INTERSTATE
35.
TIMING...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY AT LEAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
IMPACTS...
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY. HOWEVER...
ISOLATED INTENSE SUPERCELLS COULD PRODUCE LARGER HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
TENNIS BALLS.
DISCUSSION...
A STORM SYSTEM MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL
CONTINUE TO INDUCE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN AND
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS. ALTHOUGH INSTABILITY IS ON THE MARGINAL SIDE...DEEP LAYER
WIND SHEAR IS VERY STRONG...AND THE LIFT PROVIDED BY THE STRONG
STORM SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY. IN ADDITION...A
STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AND
ENHANCE LIFT OVER THE REGION. STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING ARE EXPECTED
TO CONSOLIDATE INTO A LARGE COMPLEX AND MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH MUCH
OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA OVERNIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY
MORNING.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SATURDAY OCT 1.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...100 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MAY BE ONGOING ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN
OKLAHOMA SATURDAY MORNING... MOVING MOSTLY EAST OF THE AREA BY
SUNDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN TO OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS NEXT TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY...AS ANOTHER STRONG
COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED
AT 7 AM SATURDAY...OCTOBER 1ST.
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</html>The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:35 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 2005
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5476587.