Hail, Sabine
- When
- March 26, 3:35 PM CST
- Where
- Sabine County, 4.04 mi SE of Yellowpine
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 31.240, -93.780
Hail in Texas, March 26, 2009
Dense fog around during the morning gave way to a very unstable atmosphere across northwest and north central Louisiana. A stalled frontal boundary was located across deep east Texas into central Louisiana.
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
- 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 SHV wrote it up.
Dense fog around during the morning gave way to a very unstable atmosphere across northwest and north central Louisiana. A stalled frontal boundary was located across deep east Texas into central Louisiana. An upper level storm system moved quickly eastward across central Texas into west central Louisiana and as a result, strong to severe thunderstorms developed. These storms produced mainly large 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 26, 3:05 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:05 PM CST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 405 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 .UPDATE... UPDATED THE GRIDS AND ZONE PACKAGE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 71 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR PORTIONS OF EAST TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISINA. /05/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 312 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009/ DISCUSSION... LOOKS LIKE ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS ARE COMING TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. TONIGHT...LATEST RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS A NUMBER OF FEATURES THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ANOTHER POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK TONIGHT. A SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI TO JUST SOUTH OF LUFKIN HAS BEEN LIFTING NORTHWARD THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL LIKELY BE ONE OF THE TRIGGERS NECESSARY IN SPARKING CONVECTION LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE OTHER IS A NORTH/SOUTH ORIENTED BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM FORT SMITH TO DALLAS FORT WORTH. THESE TWO BOUNDARIES...COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WILL INTERACT LATER THIS EVENING TO PROVIDE A SITUATION SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT WITH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHERE THE MAIN FOCUS OF THESE STORMS WILL OCCUR. PREVIOUS RUNS OF THE GFS TRENDED TOWARD AN EVENT THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH OF I-20. HOWEVER...THE 12Z RUN OF THE GFS HAS REVEALED TWO SEPARATE BUT DISTINCT LOCATIONS...ONE BEING ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA...AND ANOTHER ALONG I-30. THIS UNCERTAINTY...ALONG WITH CURRENT OBSERVATIONS...LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT THE ENTIRE FOUR STATE REGION MAY BE AT RISK OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS TONIGHT. THEREFORE...SEVERE WEATHER WORDING HAS BEEN INCLUDE ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA. AS FOR TIMING...EXPECTING MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP IN CONCERT WITH THE UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE CURRENTLY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. MAY SEE THE I-30 DEVELOPMENT AFTER 6PM LOCAL...WHILE SOUTHERN AREAS NEAR LUFKIN ARE ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS OF CONVECTION. A WATCH WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FRIDAY...NOT MUCH OF A BREAK EXPECTED BETWEEN EVENTS. A DEEP MID LEVEL LOW WILL BARREL ACROSS THE MIDWEST ON FRIDAY. A VERY STRONG JET ALONG WITH LOTS OF INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT THIS TIME...THE REGION REMAINS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK WITH PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNDER A MODERATE RISK. EXPECTING MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY TO BECOME LINEAR...IN THE FORM OF A SQUALL LINE...AS IT MOVES ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...THE FRONT SHOULD CLEAR THE REGION ON SATURDAY MORNING BRINGING MUCH COOLER CONDITIONS. A DRY AND TRANQUIL WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK...MODELS INDICATE MORE ENERGETICS IN STORE FOR NEXT WEEK. A FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION MONDAY EVENING FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER POTENTIALLY STORMY DAY ON THURSDAY. AVIATION... LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS THE FRONT EXTENDING NEAR A KDFW-KAEX-KGAD LINE AT 26/1900 UTC. FRONT HAS STARTED MOVING N THIS AFTERNOON...THANKS IN PART TO CLEARING SEEN ACROSS MUCH OF N LA. THIS HAS ALLOWED FOR SOME DESTABILIZATION TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE IH-20 CORRIDOR. SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY...ANY BOUNDARIES ARE EXPECTED TO SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE FOCUSED IN TWO REGIONS... ONE AFFECTING N TERMINALS...THE OTHER AFFECTING S TERMINALS. DESPITE THIS...I EXPECT CONVECTION TO AFFECT MOST AIRPORTS AT SOME POINT TONIGHT. MVFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES WILL LIKELY BE SEEN THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY IN SHRA/TSRA AREAS. WITH THE EXPECTED PRECIPITATION...A REDUCTION TO IFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES WILL LIKELY AGAIN BE SEEN OVERNIGHT THANKS TO LOW CIGS AND POSSIBLY VSBYS. STRONG UPPER LOW IS FORECAST TO MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS FRIDAY. ADDITIONAL SHRA/TSRA WILL LIKELY DEVELOP BETWEEN 27/1500-1800 UTC ACROSS E TX AS THE SYSTEM DRAWS NEAR. STRONG/SEVERE TSRA APPEAR LIKELY AFTER 27/1800 UTC...WITH A SQUALL LINE DEVELOPING AND MOVING E ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH 27/0600 UTC. /BUTTS/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 60 74 44 58 38 / 90 70 60 10 0 MLU 60 76 49 60 41 / 90 70 60 10 0 DEQ 55 67 38 51 32 / 90 70 30 30 10 TXK 58 70 45 55 35 / 90 70 60 20 10 ELD 58 74 45 57 35 / 90 70 60 20 10 TYR 60 72 41 53 37 / 90 70 20 10 0 GGG 59 75 41 56 35 / 90 70 20 10 0 LFK 62 79 42 60 36 / 90 70 20 10 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 05/05
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 11:00 AM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-271100- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1200 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH ACROSS THE REGION. IN ADDITION...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH FROM THE BIG BEND REGION...AFFECTING ALL OF THE FOUR STATE REGION DURING THE EVENING HOURS. EXPECT THAT THESE STORMS WILL ENTER EAST TEXAS IN A SOLID LINE...WITH THE GREATEST SEVERE THREAT IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. AS THE SYSTEM TRACKS ACROSS LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS DURING THE EVENING...HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE A THREAT...ESPECIALLY WHERE THUNDERSTORMS BEGIN TO TRAIN ACROSS THE SAME LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL EXIT THE ROCKIES AND TRACK ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY ON FRIDAY. THIS SYSTEM TENTATIVELY APPEARS TO BE THE STRONGEST SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS SPRING. WEATHER MODELS SUGGEST THAT THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEGINNING IN THE AFTERNOON IN EAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA DURING THE EARLY EVENING. IN ADDITION...EXPECT THAT A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. ON FRIDAY... PERSONNEL WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE NEEDED DURING THE AFTERNOON IN EAST TEXAS...AND DURING THE EVENING IN LOUISIANA. 05
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
335 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009
TXZ167-262130-
SABINE-
335 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY...
IN EASTERN TEXAS...
SABINE...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
FAIRMOUNT AND YELLOWPINE...
AT 334 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURKEVILLE...MOVING NORTH
AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL TO THE SIZE
OF PEAS OF DIMES AS IT MOVES NORTH INTO SABINE COUNTY TEXAS.
13Special weather statement, Mar 26, 2:37 PM CST, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
337 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009
TXZ165-262130-
ANGELINA-
337 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY...
IN EASTERN TEXAS...
ANGELINA...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
DOLAN AND ZAVALLA...
AT 336 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 10 MPH. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PEAS OR DIMES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES NORTH NORTHEAST INTO
EASTERN ANGELINA COUNTY.
13The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Sabine
- When
- March 26, 4:03 PM CST
- Where
- Sabine County, 1.18 mi W of Fairdale
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 31.230, -93.690
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
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Mexico, March 26 to 27, 2009
- Blizzard in Texas, March 26 to 28, 2009
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 26, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 26, 2009
- Blizzard in Oklahoma, March 26 to 28, 2009
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 26, 2009
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 26, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 26, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 26, 2009
- High Wind in Arizona, March 26, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 26, 2009
- Strong Wind in Arizona, March 26, 2009
More
Every storm in Texas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2009
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: 159814, 159816.