Hail and Lightning Strike in Texas, May 28, 2009

Name: Hail and Lightning Strike in Texas, May 28, 2009
Start: 2009-05-28T18:37
End: 2009-05-28T19:12
Location: Texas

May 28, 2009 · NWS FWD · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

A severe thunderstorm in Eastland County produced small hail. This storm was the right mover of a splitting storm.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $4,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 FWD wrote it up.

A severe thunderstorm in Eastland County produced small hail. This storm was the right mover of a splitting storm. The thunderstorms developed along a weak shortwave that was moving across the state.

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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 5:19 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 5:19 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
619 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2009

.AVIATION...
A FEW STORMS TO THE WEST OF THE AIRPORTS ARE SPREADING SOME MID
AND HIGH CLOUDS OVER THE TERMINALS. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
REMAIN WEST OF THE AIRPORTS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS BUT WILL
CONTINUE TO MONITOR. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS WILL PREVAIL
TONIGHT AND THEN NORTHEAST WINDS WILL ESTABLISH ON FRIDAY AS THE
SURFACE HIGH MOVES TO THE EAST. SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN A0B
10 KTS AND VFR WILL PREVAIL.

82/JLD

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 302 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2009/
WEAK STATIONARY FRONT IS DRAPED ROUGHLY FROM NEAR MIDLAND TO
ABILENE TO AUSTIN AND BAY CITY. WE HAVE WATCHED A CU FIELD OVER
THE TEXAS BIG COUNTRY GROW THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON
HOURS...AWAITING A WEAK MID LEVEL VORT COMING OUT OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO. THIS VORT IS NOW MOVING ACROSS THE TRANS PECOS REGION AND
AIDING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS
BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND ABILENE. WILL CARRY ISOLATED MENTION OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER OUR FAR WEST-CENTRAL/SOUTHWESTERN ZONES THROUGH
MID EVENING...BUT EXPECT MAJORITY OF THIS ACTIVITY TO SKIRT OUR
CWA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN NEW
MEXICO/FAR WEST TEXAS...BUT THESE SHOULD NOT IMPACT OUR CWA.

LITTLE CHANGE TO ONGOING POP FORECAST. MID LEVEL TROUGHING PATTERN
WILL DOMINATE THE REGION MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. EXPECT
SCATTERED DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS EARLY TO MID NEXT WEEK...BUT MODERATE
UNCERTAINTY REMAINS FOR THE DAY 6-7 PERIODS.

TEMPERATURE WISE...GENERALLY EXPECT HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S TO
THE LOWER 90S WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 60S.

SCHULTZ

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  63  88  63  91  66 /   5   0   0   5   5
WACO, TX              58  89  59  93  62 /  10  10   5   5   5
PARIS, TX             56  86  60  89  63 /   0   0   0   5   5
DENTON, TX            54  88  57  90  62 /   5   0   0   5   5
MCKINNEY, TX          54  88  57  90  61 /   0   0   0   5   5
DALLAS, TX            64  88  65  91  67 /   0   0   0   5   5
TERRELL, TX           56  87  60  90  64 /   0   0   0   5   5
CORSICANA, TX         60  87  61  89  64 /   5   5   0   5   5
TEMPLE, TX            60  89  59  92  63 /  10  10   5   5   5

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

82/58

Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 6:13 PM CST, 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
713 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2009

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-291200-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO-
FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE-
LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
713 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEST OF A MINERAL WELLS TO
GATESVILLE LINE THIS EVENING. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST ON MONDAY AFTERNOON...WITH
MORE WIDESPREAD CHANCES TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SEVERE WEATHER
IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

82/JLD

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Stephens

When: May 28, 6:37 PM CST
Where: Stephens County, Gunsight
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Law Enforcement
Coordinates: 32.530, -98.870

Nickel size hail was reported in Gunsight.

Hail, Eastland

When: May 28, 6:54 PM CST
Where: Eastland County, 1.61 mi E of Morton Vly
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Reported by: Fire Department/Rescue
Coordinates: 32.472, -98.793

Nickel to Half Dollar size hail fell 2 miles south of the Eastland/Stephens county line on Highway 1852.

Lightning, Eastland

When: May 28, 7:12 PM CST
Where: Eastland County, 0.58 mi E of Ranger
Property damage: $4,000
Reported by: Fire Department/Rescue
Coordinates: 32.470, -98.670

A lightning strike caused a power outage throughout Ranger.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Lightning: A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2009 Every state in 2009 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, May 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: 172157, 172158, 172155.