Hail, Jasper
- When
- May 2, 2:44 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, 7 mi N of Jasper
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.017, -94.000
Hail in Texas, May 2, 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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 2:25 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:25 PM CST, 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 325 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 .SYNOPSIS... THE SUBTROPICAL HIGH-PRESSURE RIDGE, WHICH CURRENTLY EXTENDS ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA, WILL TRANSLATE SOUTH, SETTLING OVER THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO NEAR LATITUDE 28 DEG N FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. FURTHER-UP, A FEW PACIFIC SHORTWAVES WILL TRAVEL WEST-TO-EAST ACROSS TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE, MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON, WHEN THESE SHORTWAVES PASS OVER A HEATED GROUND. && .DISCUSSION... THIS MORNINGS SOUNDING DEPICTED A 29 PERCENT INCREASE IN PRECIPITABLE WATER DUE IN PART, TO A STRONGER GULF-AIR ADVECTION. THE STRONGER GULF AIR ADVECTION HAS ALSO GENERATED A 2 C DEGREE ADVECTION INVERSION AT 4500 FT NEVERTHELESS, NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO IMPEDE THE AIR MASS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. FOR TONIGHT, A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. OTHERWISE, SKIES WILL BE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY. THE FOG WILL RETURN DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS, ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE OVERNIGHT MINIMUMS WILL BE RUNNING ABOUT 5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. FOR TOMORROW, THE FOG WILL LIFT AND BURN-OFF BY MIDMORNING. THE COMBINATION OF A HEATED GROUND AND SHORTWAVES PASSING OVERHEAD WILL SET OFF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE ON THE STRONG SIDE. THE AFTERNOON MAXIMUMS WILL BE RUNNING ABOUT 5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. && .AVIATION... SOME ADVECTION FOG IS POSSIBLE OVER THE LAKE CHARLES AND LAFAYETTE AERODROMES DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME PATCHY FOG IS POSSIBLE OVER ALEXANDRIA AERODROME. OTHERWISE, AIR MASS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOUND IN VICINITY OF AIRPORTS. && .MARINE... THE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL SLOPE DOWNWARD ABRUPTLY OVER THE WESTERN COASTAL WATERS (BETWEEN HIGH ISLAND AND CAMERON). CONSEQUENTLY, THE ONSHORE WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE SLIGHTLY STRONGER AND HIGHER. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 68 85 69 86 / 0 20 0 20 KBPT 69 86 69 86 / 0 20 0 20 KAEX 64 88 65 87 / 0 20 0 20 KLFT 67 86 68 86 / 0 20 0 20 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 2:32 PM CST, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 332 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 LAZ030-031-022115- ALLEN-BEAUREGARD- 332 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 ...STORMS WITH EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING OVER NORTHERN ALLEN PARISH... NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH... AT 324 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT INDICATED SEVERAL STORMS WITH EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING FROM NEAR DE RIDDER...TO BUNDICKS LAKE...TO DRY CREEK AND MITTIE. THESE STORM WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...TAKE SHELTER IN A BUILDING OR ENCLOSED AUTOMOBILE. TREES AND OPEN SHELTERS FOUND ON A BEACH OR GOLF COURSE OFFER NO PROTECTION. 06
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, May 2, 2006
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 2, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 2, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Hail in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Flood and Hail in Texas, May 2, 2006
- Hail in South Dakota, May 2, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 2, 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: 5510632.