Name: Hail in Texas, May 14, 2012
Start: 2012-05-14T17:53
End: 2012-05-14T17:53
Location: Texas

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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 happened

The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.

One summer-type afternoon thunderstorm produced hail up to the size of nickels in Allen in Collin County.

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 14, 5:16 PM CST, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 5:16 PM CST, 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
616 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012

.AVIATION...
EXPECT VFR AND NORTH FLOW THOROUGH THE PERIOD. CONVECTION THIS
AFTERNOON WILL DIE QUICKLY NEAR SUNSET. WACO MAY SEE SOME SHOWERS
TO THE SOUTH BY MORNING...BUT EXPECT COVERAGE TO BE LOW ENOUGH
WILL LEAVE OUT OF THE TAF. 84

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 312 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012/
ISOLATED SHOWERS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE CWA...WITH THE
HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTHWESTERN AREAS.
HAVENT SEEN ANY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES YET...BUT WOULD
COULD HAVE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS INSTABILITY
CONTINUES TO INCREASE WITH FURTHER HEATING. LATEST WATER VAPOR
IMAGERY SATELLITE SHOWS THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS LOCATED IN
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO WITH A CONTINUED MOVEMENT TO THE S/SE.
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN WEST TEXAS
AND AS FAR EAST AS JUNCTION IN A REGION WHERE LARGE SCALE LIFT IS
PRESENT. THE SHORTWAVE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SSE BEFORE TURNING
TO THE SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. LATEST HIGH RESOLUTION MODELS
CONSISTENTLY TAKE THE ACTIVITY IN WEST TEXAS EAST OVERNIGHT...INTO
OUR SOUTHWESTERN ZONES AFTER 3Z. WILL CARRY HIGH CHANCE POPS
ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST FOR TONIGHT. THE DISTURBANCE WILL SLOWLY MOVE
OUT TOMORROW...AND WILL LEAVE IN LOW POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH FOR ANY
LINGERING ACTIVITY. MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES/UPPER FLOW WILL REMAIN
POOR AND AM NOT EXPECTING ANY SEVERE WEATHER FOR NORTH TEXAS.

TEMPERATURES TOMORROW WILL BE NEAR 80 DEGREES...BUT A WARM UP IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN WEDNESDAY AS SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS AND UPPER
LEVEL SUBSIDENCE RETURNS DUE TO SHORTWAVE RIDGING. THIS RIDGING
SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE PERIOD. A TROUGH WILL PASS
THROUGH THE MID-WEST MONDAY AND A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH AND
THEN WOULD LIKELY STALL SOMEWHERE NEAR THE RED RIVER SOMETIME
MONDAY. THIS IS IN THE EXTENDED AND MANY THINGS CAN CHANGE...BUT
RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE NEXT MONDAY WITH THIS SYSTEM.

85/NH

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  62  83  62  87  65 /  10  10   0   0   5
WACO, TX              60  82  58  85  61 /  30  20   5   0   5
PARIS, TX             59  81  59  84  60 /  10  10   0   0   5
DENTON, TX            58  82  59  85  60 /  10   5   0   0   5
MCKINNEY, TX          57  82  58  85  57 /  10  10   0   0   5
DALLAS, TX            63  84  63  85  66 /  10  10   0   0   5
TERRELL, TX           60  81  58  84  61 /  10  10   5   0   5
CORSICANA, TX         62  80  61  84  63 /  20  20   5   0   5
TEMPLE, TX            61  78  59  84  61 /  50  40  10   0   5
MINERAL WELLS, TX     58  81  57  85  60 /  20  10   0   0   5

&&

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

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 2:04 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
304 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-151200-
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-
304 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 20 ON TUESDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

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

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:50 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Collin

When: May 14, 5:53 PM CST
Where: Collin County, Allen
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Storm Chaser
Coordinates: 33.100, -96.680

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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: 382593.