Hail — Morris, Texas

2023-06-14 · near Naples, Morris, Texas

Event narrative

Hen egg size hail reported in Naples.

Wider weather episode

Supercell thunderstorms developed toward midday across the middle Red River Valley along and south of a stalled frontal boundary. These thunderstorms progressed east southeast with upper 80s temperatures on the warm side of the boundary with dew points exceeding 75 degrees. Mid-level lapse rates of 7-8 C/km overspread this very moist low-level air mass over a rather broad west-to-east corridor, supporting extreme instability upwards of 4500 J/kg well downstream of the upscale-growing convection. Coinciding this corridor of extreme buoyancy was very strong effective bulk shear near 65 kts along with hodographs that were modestly curved at the low levels and elongated above 3 km AGL. Numerous local storm reports were documented of large hail, damaging wind gusts, and an isolated tornado across parts of East and Northeast Texas throughout the event.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1110810. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.