Hail, Kerr
- When
- March 22, 5:42 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County, 3.07 mi WSW of Legion
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 30.010, -99.170
Hail in Texas, March 22, 2013
A cold front moved into South Central Texas and caused isolated thunderstorms one of which produced large hail.
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 EWX wrote it up.
A cold front moved into South Central Texas and caused isolated thunderstorms one of which produced 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 22, 2:31 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 2:31 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 331 PM CDT FRI MAR 22 2013 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)... THIS AFTERNOON A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS FILTERING SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WHILE THE DRY-LINE WAS MIXING EASTWARD ACROSS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS. OVERNIGHT THE FRONT WILL STALL AROUND HIGHWAY 90...THEN RETURN NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT WHILE THE DRY-LINE RETREATS WESTWARD. THIS WILL ALLOW LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO RETURN TONIGHT IN THE FORM OF LOW CLOUDS WITH PATCHY FOG POSSIBLE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM GIDDINGS TO SAN ANTONIO TO UVALDE. SATURDAY THE DRY-LINE WILL MIX EVEN FURTHER TO THE EAST REACHING HIGHWAY 281 IN THE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL RESULT IN A WARM AFTERNOON WITH A NEAR RECORD HIGH AT DEL RIO. WARM SFC TEMPS AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE DRY-LINE MAY SET OFF ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. A SHORT WAVE TROF DIVING SE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT ACROSS OUR REGION SATURDAY NIGHT. && .LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... SUNDAY AFTERNOON WILL BE BREEZY WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES AROUND 20 DEGREES COOLER IN THE WAKE OF THE FROPA SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGHS ON SUNDAY WILL RANGE FROM THE LOWER 60S ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TO MID 70S SOUTHWEST. A FREEZE IS POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY SUNDAY NIGHT AS SFC HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES IN BEHIND THE FRONT. A NW TO W FLOW ALOFT WILL PREVAIL MONDAY THRU FRIDAY WHICH WILL RESULT IN SEASONAL TEMPERATURES. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS...ALBEIT SLIGHT...WILL BE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS LOW LEVEL GULF MOISTURE RETURNS TO THE REGION. && .FIRE WEATHER... A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT SATURDAY FROM NOON TO 7 PM WEST OF A LINE FROM BURNET TO KARNES CITY DUE TO RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 20 PERCENT AND WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH. NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY DUE TO RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 25 PERCENT AND NORTHERLY WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AT OR BELOW 25 PERCENT. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BEGIN TO RECOVER ON WEDNESDAY AS SURFACE WINDS RETURN TO THE SOUTHEAST ADVECTING GULF MOISTURE INLAND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 61 86 49 66 39 / 20 20 10 0 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 59 86 46 66 34 / 20 20 10 0 0 NEW BRAUNFELS MUNI AIRPORT 61 88 47 69 36 / 10 20 - 0 0 BURNET MUNI AIRPORT 56 84 44 63 37 / 20 20 - 0 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 65 93 50 70 42 / 10 - - 0 0 GEORGETOWN MUNI AIRPORT 58 83 44 64 34 / 20 20 10 0 0 HONDO MUNI AIRPORT 63 92 45 72 35 / 10 10 - 0 0 SAN MARCOS MUNI AIRPORT 61 86 48 67 36 / 10 20 - 0 0 LA GRANGE - FAYETTE REGIONAL 62 84 51 66 39 / 20 30 10 0 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 64 90 48 69 38 / 10 20 - 0 0 STINSON MUNI AIRPORT 65 90 49 70 39 / 10 20 - 0 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BEXAR...BLANCO...COMAL...DIMMIT... EDWARDS...FRIO...GILLESPIE...GUADALUPE...KARNES...KENDALL...KERR... KINNEY...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL...UVALDE...VAL VERDE... WILSON...ZAVALA. && MESOSCALE/AVIATION...08 SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...13 PUBLIC SERVICE/DATA COLLECTION...32
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 22, 1:05 PM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 205 PM CDT FRI MAR 22 2013 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-231100- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 205 PM CDT FRI MAR 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83... DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND CONTINUED DRY CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... BREEZY...DRY AND UNSEASONABLY WARM CONDITIONS WILL SPREAD TO A LARGER PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON SATURDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT SATURDAY FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM FOR AREAS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BURNET TO KARNES CITY. EAST OF THIS LINE...ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED IN THE EARLY AND MID AFTERNOON TO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. ON SUNDAY...ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY... DUE TO BREEZY NORTH WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:41 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kerr
- When
- March 22, 5:44 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County, 2.49 mi WSW of Kerrville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 30.040, -99.170
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
- Winter Storm in Idaho, March 22, 2013
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 22 to 23, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Kansas, March 22 to 24, 2013
- Winter Weather in Colorado, March 22 to 23, 2013
- Winter Weather in Wyoming, March 22 to 23, 2013
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, March 22 to 23, 2013
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, March 22, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Colorado, March 22 to 24, 2013
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Nebraska, March 22 to 24, 2013
- High Wind in California, March 22, 2013
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 22, 2013
- Winter Weather in Utah, March 22 to 23, 2013
More
Every storm in Texas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2013
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: 433426, 433427.