Hail — Cooke, Texas

2003-04-05 · near Gainesville, Cooke, Texas

Event narrative

Large hail damaged approximately 1,000 cars and about the same number of homes.

Wider weather episode

On April 5th, a lone supercell thunderstorm developed around 300 pm southeast of Claremont, in Kent County. This storm quickly became severe, and by 500 pm had moved eastward into western Young County in North Central Texas. This storm produced large hail, straight line damaging winds, and at least four weak tornadoes across North Central Texas from 510 pm cdt until 1050 pm cdt. This storm quickly dissipated after the last severe weather report at 1050 pm. The damage path across North Texas extended from Padgett, in western Young County, to west of Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County, a distance of approximately 192 miles. This was one of the costliest storms on record to hit North Texas, with damage estimates approximately 885 million dollars.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5353399. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.