Hail, Zapata
- When
- May 28, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Zapata County, Zapata
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 26.900, -99.233
Large hail was reported by the Sheriff's Office in Zapata.
Hail in Texas, May 28, 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 12:25 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:25 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 125 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 .DISCUSSION...SW MOVING THROUGH S CENTRAL TX THIS AM TRIGGERED TSTMS OVER COASTAL BEND WITH ISOLD SHRA/TSRA MAINLY OVER KENEDY COUNTY. BRO 12Z SOUNDING SHOWS 2 INCH PW AND HIGH CAPE WITH NO CAP...SO ALTHOUGH VORT MAX IS EXITING THE REGION WILL CARRY SCHC POPS THROUGH THIS EVENING. MODELS CONTINUE TO PROG ANOTHER MINOR SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH S TX MON WITH FCST SOUNDINGS SHOW PW REMAINING AROUND 2 INCHES WITH LITTLE OR NO CIN. THIS PATTERN REMAINS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WITH SEABREEZE TRIGGERING ISOLD TO SCT CONVECTION. RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO REGION BY THE END OF THE WEEK WITH DRY FCST AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES EXPECTED NEXT WEEKEND. MOS TEMPS SEEM ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT SO WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR FROM GUIDANCE AND MAINTAIN TEMPS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE FCST. && .MARINE...BUOY 42020 REPORTED EAST-SOUTHEAST WINDS NEAR 10 KNOTS GUSTING TO NEAR 12 KNOTS WITH SEAS SLIGHTLY UNDER 6 FEET WITH A PERIOD OF 7 SECONDS AT 13 CDT/18 UTC. WEAK LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF MEXICO WILL REMAIN EXTENDED OVER THE LOWER TEXAS COAST TONIGHT THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK. THIS PATTERN WILL PROVIDE MODERATE WINDS AND SEAS TO THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FOR THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION...SCATTERED TO BROKEN CLOUDINESS WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND LIGHT TO MODERATE WINDS WILL PREVAIL OVER THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BAYVIEW/PORT ISABEL 78 89 78 88 77 / 10 20 20 30 10 BROWNSVILLE 78 92 77 90 76 / 10 20 20 30 10 HARLINGEN 76 96 76 93 74 / 10 20 20 30 10 MCALLEN 78 97 77 97 75 / 10 20 20 30 10 RIO GRANDE CITY 79 98 78 101 77 / 10 10 20 20 10 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 78 88 78 87 77 / 10 20 20 30 10 && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR INTERNET WEB PAGE AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO 55/66/MARTINEZ
Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 1:15 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 215 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 TXZ248>257-291100- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 215 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED INTENSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS FROM 40 TO 60 MPH THIS AFTERNOON OVER PRIMARILY BROOKS...JIM HOGG AND KENEDY COUNTIES. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS DURING THE PERIOD...AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR BROOKS...JIM HOGG AND KENEDY COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. TOMASELLI
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 196 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:03 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
- Rip Current in Florida, May 28, 2006
- Flood in Alaska, May 28 to 29, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 28, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 28, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, May 28, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 28 to 29, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, May 28, 2006
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 28, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Florida, May 28, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Florida, May 28, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, May 28, 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: 5512054.