Hail — Bowie, Texas

2008-03-31 · near Whatley, Bowie, Texas

Event narrative

Fire department reported that car windows and sky lights and the roofs of many homes throughout the city were damaged from this devastating hail storm. Preliminary monetary estimate at the time of this publication was near 90 million dollars with local emergency management officials saying this amount would likely increase.

Wider weather episode

Severe thunderstorms developed along and ahead of an approaching cold front across the middle Red River valley of northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma as well as southwest Arkansas during the afternoon and evening hours of March 31st. These storms developed in an very unstable atmosphere and produced large hail...damaging wind gusts. Isolated tornadoes were reported across McCurtain County, Oklahoma late in the evening. The hail was large enough to break out automobile and home windows across the city of Texarkana, Texas close to midnight.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 87573. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.