Hail, Navarro
- When
- May 7, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Navarro County, Cryer Creek
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 32.130, -96.670
Hail in Texas, May 7, 2012
A broken line of severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a large complex of non-severe thunderstorms. Hail up to the size of golf balls occurred with these severe thunderstorms in Ellis, Navarro, and Henderson County.
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
- $3,000
- 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 broken line of severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a large complex of non-severe thunderstorms. Hail up to the size of golf balls occurred with these severe thunderstorms in Ellis, Navarro, and Henderson 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 7, 3:01 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:01 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 401 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS AS A COLD FRONT SLOWLY ADVANCES INTO AN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. CURRENTLY THE FRONT IS LINED UP FROM FAR WEST TEXAS TO NEAR SAN ANGELO AND STRETCHING NORTHEAST INTO THE ARKLATEX. A CORRIDOR OF MOSTLY UNCAPPED STRONG INSTABILITY EXTENDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS INTO THE HILL COUNTRY. MAIN CONCERNS OVER THE NEXT 12 HOURS WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF CONVECTION BECOMING MORE ORGANIZED AND TRANSITIONING INTO A FORWARD PROPAGATING MCS. HIGH RESOLUTION GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO SUGGEST THAT CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL ORGANIZE OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AND PROPAGATE EASTWARD INTO THE AXIS OF HIGHER INSTABILITY. IN ADDITION...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE ARKLATEX OVER THE LAST HOUR. IF THIS CONVECTION CAN CLUSTER IT WILL LIKELY DRIFT SOUTHWARD ACROSS OUR NORTHEAST COUNTIES. FOR THIS EVENING...WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST WHERE CONVECTION IS ONGOING. IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT THESE STORMS WILL HOLD TOGETHER AND MOVE EAST...SO WILL CARRY HIGH POPS THROUGH TONIGHT MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. GIVEN ANY ORGANIZED COMPLEX OF STORMS...DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE LIKELY ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION TO ANY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORM MERGERS WITHIN ANY COMPLEX OF STORMS WOULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. AT THIS TIME WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY FLASH FLOOD WATCH...BUT WILL HAVE TO WATCH ESPECIALLY OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS SOUTH DURING THE DAY TUESDAY WITH FRONT BEING PUSHED INTO SOUTH TEXAS. THE UPPER TROF WILL STILL REMAIN WELL TO THE WEST OF NORTH TEXAS...HOWEVER MODERATE WARM ADVECTION WILL PERSIST FROM 800-600MB WHICH WILL LIKELY RESULT IN AREAS OF SHOWERS. INSTABILITY WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER TOMORROW BUT STILL SUFFICIENT FOR THUNDERSTORMS. WILL MAINTAIN RELATIVELY HIGH POPS THROUGH TUESDAY. IT APPEARS THAT WE WILL GET A BREAK IN SCATTERED PRECIP ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE UPPER LOW FINALLY EJECTS EASTWARD ON THURSDAY. PRECIP CHANCES WILL INCREASE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AND AGAIN MOST ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. BEYOND FRIDAY NIGHT...NORTHWEST FLOW WILL PREVAIL AND FORECAST WILL REMAIN DRY. DUNN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 65 75 58 80 57 / 60 50 20 10 5 WACO, TX 69 76 59 80 57 / 80 70 30 10 10 PARIS, TX 64 75 54 76 53 / 40 30 20 10 5 DENTON, TX 62 71 54 79 53 / 40 40 20 10 5 MCKINNEY, TX 64 74 55 79 52 / 50 40 20 10 5 DALLAS, TX 66 76 59 80 59 / 60 50 20 10 5 TERRELL, TX 66 75 57 79 55 / 70 50 20 10 5 CORSICANA, TX 68 76 60 78 57 / 80 60 30 10 10 TEMPLE, TX 68 76 60 77 58 / 80 70 40 10 10 MINERAL WELLS, TX 60 70 54 79 54 / 50 50 20 10 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 2:53 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 353 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-081215- 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- 353 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS FROM THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR A BONHAM TO SULPHUR SPRINGS LINE AND THEN MOVE SOUTH EARLY THIS EVENING. THIS LINE OF STORMS ALSO HAS A CHANCE OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE REGION WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE FORECAST LATE THURSDAY...WITH CHANCES CONTINUING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS MOST LIKELY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR. CAVANAUGH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:50 PM CST, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 550 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 TXZ119-072315- DALLAS TX- 550 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DALLAS COUNTY AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF SEAGOVILLE AND NEARLY STATIONARY. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SEAGOVILLE. PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3258 9653 3259 9665 3270 9665 3270 9654 TIME...MOT...LOC 2249Z 293DEG 2KT 3264 9657
Special weather statement, May 7, 5:07 PM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
607 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
TXZ143-072330-
HAMILTON TX-
607 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
HAMILTON COUNTY
AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAMILTON...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HAMILTON.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
LAT...LON 3183 9818 3186 9816 3196 9797 3181 9785
3170 9779 3152 9817 3175 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 263DEG 14KT 3175 9814
CAVANAUGHSpecial weather statement, May 7, 5:22 PM CST, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 622 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 TXZ146-072345- NAVARRO TX- 622 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... WESTERN NAVARRO COUNTY AT 621 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF CORSICANA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BARRY...BLOOMING GROVE... CORSICANA AND DAWSON. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED. LAT...LON 3182 9672 3207 9689 3228 9647 3212 9633 TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 294DEG 6KT 3207 9663 CAVANAUGH
Special weather statement, May 7, 5:30 PM CST, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
630 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
TXZ121-080000-
KAUFMAN TX-
630 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
SOUTHERN KAUFMAN COUNTY
AT 630 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL 10 MILES SOUTH OF
KAUFMAN OR ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF KAUFMAN COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE COTTONWOOD...GRAYS PRAIRIE
AND KEMP.
PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3237 9642 3240 9644 3241 9643 3242 9646
3246 9648 3260 9609 3238 9608
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 327DEG 3KT 3244 9626Special weather statement, May 7, 5:33 PM CST, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
633 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
TXZ134-080000-
ELLIS TX-
633 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EAST CENTRAL ELLIS COUNTY
AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ENNIS...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALMA...BARDWELL AND ENNIS.
PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3217 9670 3237 9681 3244 9648 3241 9644
3238 9643 3235 9646 3235 9644 3232 9641
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 280DEG 9KT 3230 9655Special weather statement, May 7, 5:36 PM CST, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 636 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 TXZ146-080000- NAVARRO TX- 636 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... NORTHWESTERN NAVARRO COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM FROM JUST EAST OF GUN BARREL CITY TO 10 MILES WEST OF CORSICANA OR ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NAVARRO COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL STORMS WAS EAST AT 10 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BARRY AND BLOOMING GROVE. PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3198 9679 3209 9684 3232 9637 3222 9621 TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 234DEG 10KT 3213 9662
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Ellis
- When
- May 7, 6:06 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County, 1.63 mi NW of Alma
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 32.298, -96.568
Golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of Highway 287 and Interstate 45.
Hail, Henderson
- When
- May 7, 6:58 PM CST
- Where
- Henderson County, Malakoff
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 32.170, -96.020
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 7, 2012
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- Flash Flooding and Hail in Arkansas, May 7, 2012
- Dust Devils and Strong Wind in Nevada, May 7, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 7, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 7, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 7, 2012
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 7, 2012
- Hail in New Mexico, May 7, 2012
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, May 7, 2012
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 7, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 7, 2012
More
Every storm in Texas in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2012
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: 382394, 382395, 382396.