4-2-13 Hill Country Hail Storm

While the storms that blew through central Texas yesterday and today have been mostly beneficial in nature, they did produce quite a bit of severe weather across portions of the area. Severe weather reports mainly came in the form of large hail, flooding, and gusty winds. 

Llano/Burnet County Hail Storm:

• Around 12:30 p.m. CST I watched a thunderstorm suddenly pop over central Llano County. Just after 1:00 p.m. CST the storm had really strengthened producing radar indicated hail of up to 1.50 inches in diameter (The storm was located just southeast of the town of Llano, with its eyes set on Kingsland, Highland Haven, Granite Shoals, and eventually Marble Falls)

• At 1:24 p.m. CST things really started to get ugly...radar was now estimating hail of 3.42 inches in diameter falling in between Kingsland and Llano. 

• At 2:39 p.m. CST the severe storm was closing in on Kingsland with hail estimated by radar to be as large as 2.45 inches in diameter!

• Just before 2:00 p.m. CST the storm really intensified as it pushed just east of the Kingsland area and right over Highland Haven...radar was now estimating hail of 4.25 inches in diameter...radar was indicating a 100% chance of hail in between Highland Haven and Marble Falls.

• At 2:12 p.m. CST the super cell thunderstorm was crossing Highway 281 and the city of Marble Falls where it dumped plenty of hail between golf ball to baseball in size.

• At 2:39 p.m. CST the hail core was pushing through extreme southeastern Burnet County getting ready to cross into far western Travis County where it would later lose the hail and go on to produce torrential downpours and gusty winds across the Austin Metro Area.

The Storm (at its peak) was towering some 50,000 feet into the atmosphere!

Here is how the storm looked on radar!

Marble Falls Hail Storm (4-2-13) posted by Darrell Fishbeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGzJ5lPQYDE

Hail Reports submitted to the National Weather Service: