Hail, Walker
- When
- February 2, 12:52 AM CST
- Where
- Walker County, 1.37 mi ESE of Huntsville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 30.710, -95.550
A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail.
Hail in Texas, February 2, 2009
Severe thunderstorms developed in an unstable airmass ahead of a cold front and produced hail.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
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 happened
The episode as NWS HGX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms developed in an unstable airmass ahead of a cold front and produced hail.
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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 1, 11:22 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 11:22 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1122 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2009
.AVIATION...
LINE OF STORMS ENTERING NRN PORTIONS OF SE TX AND SHOULD CONTINUE
MOVING SE OVERNIGHT AND LOOKS TO AFFECT AREAS GENERALLY E OF A
CLL TO FREEPORT LINE. ANTICIPATE THE STORMS TO BE IN THE METRO
AREA IN THE 9-11Z TIMEFRAME AND OFF THE COAST AROUND 12Z. STORMS
MAY BRIEFLY PULSE UP TO SVR LEVELS WITH HAIL BEING PRIMARY THREAT.
IN THE MEANTIME...AREAS OF FOG THICKENING AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND
WILL PROBABLY DO SO UNTIL FROPA. N WINDS WILL GUST ABOVE 20KT
BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. LOW CLOUDS DONT SEEM TO BE FILLING IN BEHIND
THE FRONT AS MOST MODELS SUGGESTED. WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH AND
AMEND WITH TIME AND CONFIDENCE...BUT HAVE A HUNCH THAT THE
UPCOMING 6Z TAF PACKAGE MIGHT BE TOO PESSIMISTIC WITH THE LOW
CLOUDS LINGERING TOO LONG BEHIND THE FRONT. 47
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 917 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2009/
DISCUSSION...
CONVECTION NEAR/ALONG FRONT BECOMING MORE ACTIVE FROM NEAR TYLER
TO JUST SOUTH OF WACO. SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING
MAINLY NORTH OF A NAVASOTA...CONROE...MOSS HILL LINE. WE INCREASED
POPS MAINLY NORTHEAST HALF OF CWFA WITH LATEST NAM BUFR SOUNDINGS
INDICATING STEEPER LAPSE RATES AND QUITE MOIST PROFILE ESPECIALLY
NORTHEAST ZONES. OTHERWISE...REST OF ZFPHGX ON TRACK. 37
PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 524 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2009/
AVIATION...
SCT SHRA/TSTMS OVER HARRIS/LIBERTY/MONTGOMERY COUNTIES SHOULD
TAPER OFF IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. EXPECT MVFR CIGS AND POSSIBLY
SOME SEA FOG TO SET IN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. ATTENTION
THEN TURNS NORTH OF THE REGION IN ANTICIPATION OF POSSIBLE
DEVELOPMENT OF LINE OF SHRA/TSTMS ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH
SHOULD BE APPROACHING CLL AROUND MIDNIGHT...HOUSTON TERMINALS
3-5AM AND OFF THE GLS COAST JUST AFTER SUNRISE. PERIODS OF IFR
CIGS POSSIBLE IN ANY TSTMS. SKIES WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR FROM N TO S
THRU THE DAY TOMORROW ALONG WITH MODERATE NORTHERLY WINDS GUSTING
ABOVE 20KT. 47
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 47 58 35 68 38 / 60 10 0 0 0
HOUSTON (IAH) 52 59 37 68 41 / 60 30 0 0 0
GALVESTON (GLS) 56 62 47 67 46 / 50 40 0 0 0
&&
.HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...RED FLAG WARNING FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM CST MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: AUSTIN...BRAZORIA...BRAZOS...BURLESON...CHAMBERS...
COLORADO...FORT BEND...GALVESTON...GRIMES...HARRIS...
HOUSTON...JACKSON...LIBERTY...MADISON...MATAGORDA...
MONTGOMERY...POLK...SAN JACINTO...TRINITY...WALKER...
WALLER...WASHINGTON...WHARTON.
GM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 7 AM TO 4 PM CST MONDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: GALVESTON BAY...MATAGORDA BAY...WATERS
FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60
NM...WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT
20 NM...WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM...
WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM.
&&
DISCUSSION...47
AVIATION/MARINE...30Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 7:53 PM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 753 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2009 GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226- 227-235>238-021400- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GALVESTON BAY-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY- MADISON-MATAGORDA-MATAGORDA BAY-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO- TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM-WHARTON- 753 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT AS IT PUSHES INTO NORTHERN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AROUND MIDNIGHT AND OFF THE COAST AROUND SUNRISE MONDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BRIEFLY PULSE UP TO STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS WITH HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE COLD FRONT SHOULD BE PUSHING OFF THE COAST DURING THE MORNING HOURS MONDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG. MARINERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WINDS TO SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND INCREASE IN SPEED. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT. OTHERWISE...A DRY AIRMASS WILL BE FILTERING IN BEHIND THE FRONT. DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR HAZARDOUS BURNING CONDITIONS. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MONDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 1, 11:42 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1142 PM CST SUN FEB 01 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1142 PM HAIL CROCKETT 31.32N 95.46W
02/01/2009 E0.25 INCH HOUSTON TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
47The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:54 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Walker
- When
- February 2, 1:08 AM CST
- Where
- Walker County, 1.82 mi SW of Phelps
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 30.660, -95.490
A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail.
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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- Winter Weather in Kentucky, February 2, 2009
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 2 to 4, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in West Virginia, February 2, 2009
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 2 to 5, 2009
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, February 2 to 3, 2009
- Winter Weather in Maryland, February 2 to 3, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Florida, February 2, 2009
- Winter Weather in Tennessee, February 2, 2009
More
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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: 143876, 143877.