Hail, Bowie
- When
- May 13, 11:39 PM CST
- Where
- Bowie County, 5 mi SW of New Boston
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.400, -94.483
Hail in Texas, May 13, 2006
1 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
- 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 13, 11:07 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 11:07 PM CST, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1207 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006 .DISCUSSION... HERE WE GO AGAIN. UPDATED FORECAST FOR THE NEXT WATCH. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 56 77 52 74 / 10 10 10 10 MLU 53 77 51 76 / 10 10 10 10 DEQ 47 74 46 74 / 0 10 10 20 TXK 54 75 52 73 / 0 10 10 20 ELD 51 76 49 73 / 10 10 10 20 TYR 55 77 51 77 / 10 10 10 10 GGG 54 78 52 77 / 10 10 10 10 LFK 56 79 53 78 / 20 10 10 10 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 17
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 11:00 AM CST, 12 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 2006 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-141100- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 1200 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING...ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND ADJACENT AREAS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...ALONG AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY SHIFT SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST...AHEAD OF THE FRONT...THROUGH MUCH OF THE REGION DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TONIGHT...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY MORNING...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY PUSH SOUTH ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA ON SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS...COULD REDEVELOP NEAR THE COLD FRONT ON SUNDAY...BEFORE IT FINALLY EXITS THE AREA BY SUNDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. 22
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flooding in Massachusetts, May 13 to 15, 2006
- Flood in Maine, May 13 to 16, 2006
- Flooding in New Hampshire, May 13 to 16, 2006
- Flood in New Hampshire, May 13 to 15, 2006
- Coastal Flood in Maine, May 13 to 16, 2006
- Flood in Alaska, May 13, 2006
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 13 to 14, 2006
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, May 13, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, May 13, 2006
- Coastal Flood in New Hampshire, May 13 to 14, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13 to 14, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 13, 2006
More
Every storm in Texas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2006
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: 5506910.