Daytime heating within a moist and unstable air mass allowed for the isolated development of near coastal storms. The strongest of these storms produced three quarter inch in diameter hail.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS HGX wrote it up.
Daytime heating within a moist and unstable air mass allowed for the isolated development of near coastal storms. The strongest of these storms produced three quarter inch in diameter hail.
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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 7, 11:42 AM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1242 PM CDT SUN SEP 7 2014 .DISCUSSION... 18Z TAF DISCUSSION IN AVIATION SECTION. && .AVIATION... SFC ANALYSIS HAS WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY SAGGING ACROSS THE AREA AND WILL LIKELY NOT MAKE ANY MORE MOVEMENT. RADAR SHOWING STORMS FORMING JUST SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY ALONG THE COAST. LOOK FOR ACTIVITY TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE WITH MORE DAY TIME HEATING. WILL KEEP VCTS FOR MOST TAF SITES THIS AFTERNOON AND MAY NEED TO AMMEND TEMPO TSRA FOR A FEW AS STORMS IMPACT TERMINALS. OVERNIGHT SHOULD BE QUIET. ONLY CONCERN WILL BE LOWER VSBY AT KLBX OR KCXO WITH CALM WINDS AND CLEARING SKIES. LOOK FOR CLOUD DECKS TO COME BACK TOMORROW MORNING WITH POSSIBLY MORE TSRA IN THE AFTERNOON WITH PRECIP WATER VALUES STILL AROUND 2 INCHES. 39 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1107 AM CDT SUN SEP 7 2014/ DISCUSSION... WHILE THE BULK OF THE PCPN HAS REMAINED OFFSHORE (IN PROXIMITY TO THE PRE-FRONTAL TROF) WE ARE STARTING TO SEE SOME ISO DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA. ABUNDANT MID/HIGH CLOUDS FROM OVER- NIGHT ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE LIMITING DAYTIME HEATING SO HAVE DE- CIDED TO SCALE BACK POPS A BIT FOR THIS AFTN/EVE. PER OBS THE SFC FRONT SEEMS TO STILL BE OVER NORTH TX ATTM...AND NOT EXPECTING TO SEE MUCH MORE MOVEMENT SWD (GIVEN THE CURRENT PRESSURE TRENDS). 41 PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 439 AM CDT SUN SEP 7 2014/ AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME THAT HAVE PRODUCED LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH RADAR ESTIMATED RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS...CONTINUE TO SLOWLY BUILD SOUTHWARD ACROSS OUR FAR NORTHWEST COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY IS BUILDING JUST OFF THE TX/LA COAST...WITH MORE ISOLATED DEVELOPMENT ACROSS OUR COASTAL WATERS. MODELS ARE INDICATING MORE DEVELOPMENT TODAY DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING...BUT NOT REAL CONFIDENT AS TO EXACTLY WHERE THE BEST HEATING WILL OCCUR DUE TO INCREASING CLOUD COVER. ANY RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A FOCUS FOR TODAY'S STORMS. WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS AREA WIDE TODAY...AND LOWER HIGH TEMPERATURES A DEGREE OR TWO DUE TO EXPECTED CLOUD COVER AND RAIN POTENTIAL. WILL CONTINUE TO CALL FOR LOWERING RAIN CHANCES MONDAY AND MONDAY EVENING. CANNOT TOTALLY RULE OUT ISOLATED STORM DEVELOPMENT ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON DUE TO LINGERING MOISTURE...BUT BUILDING HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD KEEP A MAJORITY OF THE AREA DRY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. FORECAST WILL STILL CALL FOR A COLD FRONT (AND ASSOCIATED CHANCE OF RAIN) TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS SOME TIME LATE THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 42 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 90 74 93 75 95 / 30 30 30 20 20 HOUSTON (IAH) 90 74 93 75 94 / 30 30 30 20 20 GALVESTON (GLS) 89 78 91 80 90 / 40 30 30 10 10 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && DISCUSSION...41 AVIATION/MARINE...39
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 434 AM CDT SUN SEP 7 2014 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-081300- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WHARTON- 434 AM CDT SUN SEP 7 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 8 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:20 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Dime sized hail was observed in the Westover Park subdivision of League City.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 2014
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: 533486.