Hail, Williamson
- When
- October 31, 1:20 PM CST to 1:26 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, 5 mi W of Georgetown
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.633, -97.750
Hail in Texas, October 31, 2005
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 10:33 AM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 10:33 AM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1033 AM CST MON OCT 31 2005 .UPDATE...COLD FRONT CURRENTLY JUST SOUTH OF A STEPHENVILLE..BROWNWOOD.. SAN ANGELO LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST ABOUT 20 KTS. SQUALL LINE CONTINUES TO DEVELOP SOUTHWEST ALONG THE FRONT. MID TO UPPER 60S DEWPOINTS ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS COMBINED WITH SOUTHERLY FLOW OF 10 TO 15 KTS WILL BE ENOUGH TO BUILD STORMS MORE TO THE SOUTHWEST ALONG THE FRONT AS IT ENTERS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WILL MAINTAIN SEVERE POTENTIAL FOR THE AFTERNOON. CURRENT FORECAST ADVERTISES SCENARIO WELL SO NO UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED AT THE PRESENT TIME. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO 6 PM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: ATASCOSA... BANDERA... BASTROP... BEXAR... BLANCO... BURNET... CALDWELL... COMAL... DE WITT... DIMMIT... EDWARDS... FAYETTE... FRIO... GILLESPIE... GONZALES... GUADALUPE... HAYS... KARNES... KENDALL... KERR... KINNEY... LAVACA... LEE... LLANO... MAVERICK... MEDINA... REAL... TRAVIS... UVALDE... VAL VERDE... WILLIAMSON... WILSON... AND ZAVALA. && 02/13
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 31, 5:41 AM CST, 7 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 541 AM CST MON OCT 31 2005 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-011145- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 541 AM CST MON OCT 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SHOWERS THIS MORNING...AND A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE...BUT DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT. THE PRIMARY THREAT AREA IS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10... INCLUDING THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METRO AREAS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE STORMS TO OCCUR IS BETWEEN 2 AND 8 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON.
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:21 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Williamson
- When
- October 31, 1:56 PM CST to 2:05 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, 3 mi SW of Taylor
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.533, -97.450
Hail, Kendall
- When
- October 31, 2:15 PM CST to 2:25 PM CST
- Where
- Kendall County, 3 mi NE of Kendalia
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.000, -98.483
Hail, Kerr
- When
- October 31, 2:30 PM CST to 2:40 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County, 3 mi E of Mountain Home
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.167, -99.317
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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- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, October 31, 2005
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- High Wind in Montana, October 31, 2005
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More
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5481993, 5481994, 5481995, 5481996.