Texas Hail Storms
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.8 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.5 billion at the time).
What the offices filed during it
The 32 most significant severe storm episodes filed in these dates, colored by kind.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Losses, 2024 dollars
- $1.8 billion
- Losses at the time
- $1.5 billion
- Deaths
- 0
The losses and deaths are NCEI’s, counting everything the disaster did. The episodes below are only what the Weather Service filed in its Storm Events record, which counts damage differently and often not at all, so the two never add up and are shown apart.
By state, as filed
| State | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 106 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Florida | 55 | 1 | 0 | $87,000 |
| Louisiana | 23 | 0 | 0 | $76,000 |
| North Carolina | 11 | 0 | 0 | $22,000 |
| Virginia | 2 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Mississippi | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oklahoma | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alabama | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Arkansas | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 10, 2021Isolated storms formed in modest instability, mainly producing strong gusty winds.
- Hail in Florida, April 11, 2021A band of strong storms formed near the I-10 corridor during the early morning hours and tracked southward across northeast Florida through mid afternoon.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 11, 2021A squall line associated with a mesoscale convective system moved across all of central and south Florida.
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, April 11, 2021Shortwave disturbance over Mid-South/Tennessee Valley region and attendant surface low with cold front extending south into the Gulf of Mexico produced a mesoscale convective system (MCS) ahead of the front that moved across the eastern gulf into West-Central and Southwest…
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 11, 2021A shortwave trough moving over the eastern Gulf of Mexico developed a mesoscale convective complex that moved through South Florida.
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 11, 2021Strong winds associated with thunderstorms moving south along a large outflow boundary produced isolated non-structural wind damage in Key Largo.
- Hail in Texas, April 12, 2021A cold front moving into a very unstable airmass triggered severe thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced very large hail across portions of West Central Texas.
- Hail in Texas, April 12, 2021Thunderstorms formed along a frontal boundary in Central Texas and moved through the northeastern part of South Central Texas. Some of these storms produced large hail.
- Hail in Texas, April 12 to 15, 2021An unsettled weather pattern during the week of April 12th generated several days of showers and thunderstorms across North and Central Texas, as multiple upper level disturbances moved across the region. A few of these storms produced large hail.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, April 13 to 16, 2021A cut off upper low slowly worked across the deep south during the middle of April. This produced multiple days of stormy weather.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Louisiana, April 13, 2021A wake low developed on the backside of a cluster of showers and thunderstorms racing south across southeast Louisiana.
- Hail in Texas, April 13, 2021Temperatures were below normal as a result of a cold front that had passed through West Texas the day before. Surface winds were easterly which helped to increase low-level moisture. Upper level disturbances passed over the area and combined with elevated instability.
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 13, 2021Elevated convection developed during the late afternoon and evening well north of a cold front. A few storms produced marginally severe hail.
- Hail in Texas, April 13 to 14, 2021A warm front began to lift north across East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon of April 13th, with warm, moist, and unstable air shifting back north across these areas.
- Hail in Texas, April 13, 2021Elevated convection developed during the late afternoon and evening well north of a cold front. A few storms produced marginally severe hail.
- Hail in Arkansas, April 14, 2021A thunderstorm produced non-severe hail in Dallas county at Sparkman.
- Hail in Louisiana, April 14, 2021A warm front began to lift north across East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon of April 13th, with warm, moist, and unstable air shifting back north across these areas.
- Hail in Arkansas, April 14, 2021A warm front began to lift north across East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon of April 13th, with warm, moist, and unstable air shifting back north across these areas.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 14 to 16, 2021A cut off low slowly moved across the Deep South and produced multiple days of stormy weather. A few storms became severe during the period.
- Hail in Louisiana, April 14, 2021A stalled frontal boundary combined with sufficient instability in place produced a thunderstorm near Baton Rouge with severe hail.
- Hail in Texas, April 14 to 15, 2021A stationary cold front draped to the south of the region and potent upper level disturbances approaching from Northern Mexico caused increasing wind shear and instability across portions of West Central Texas.
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, April 14, 2021Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds across portions of south central Virginia.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 14, 2021A weak area of low pressure tracked east-northeast along a nearly stationary front over the northeast portion of central North Carolina during the evening.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 14, 2021Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds and large hail across portions of northeast North Carolina.
- Hail in North Carolina, April 14, 2021An isolated severe thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail during the evening hours.
- Hail in Mississippi, April 15, 2021Elevated strong to severe thunderstorms developed across inland southeast Mississippi early in the morning on April 15th. There were a couple of reports of severe hail associated with these storms.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, April 15, 2021A line of thunderstorms moving along a stalled frontal boundary draped across the coastal waters produced localized flash flooding and hail.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Alabama, April 15, 2021Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed across southwest Alabama ahead of a strong spring time storm system. The storms produced an isolated severe hail event along with flash flooding in the metro Mobile area.
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 15, 2021A line of thunderstorms moving along a stalled frontal boundary draped across the coastal waters produced heavy rainfall resulting in flash flooding.
- Hail in Texas, April 15, 2021Thunderstorms developed along a stationary front and moved through northeastern parts of South Central Texas. The airmass these storms encountered favored supercell development and they produced large hail.
- Hail in Texas, April 15, 2021Severe storms producing 1-inch hail developed during the evening of April 15, impacting portions of Harris and Montgomery Counties.
- Hail in Louisiana, April 16, 2021A quick, west to east zonal flow type pattern was present across the Southern Plains on April 16th, but weak perturbations embedded in this flow resulted in the necessary forcing to generate widespread showers and thunderstorms across the Four State Region.
More
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Sources
NOAA NCEI, U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2025), https://doi.org/10.25921/stkw-7w73, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.