More hail is expected in the days ahead, particularly on Friday, when a level 3 out of 5 enhanced risk of severe weather has been drawn by the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center for parts of Texas.
April into May marks the climatological peak for severe weather, including tornadoes, in the Lower 48. After a record-active start to the year that’s already been, there has been a pause for the past week or two. Signs point to that lingering until the second week of May, when dangerous storms could make a swift return.
Giant hail fell from the sky in Waco, Tex., on April 26 as a series of severe storms moved through the state. Last weekend began with a round of hailstorms in Texas beneath an upper-level impulse. Baseball- to teacup-sized hail fell on Saturday in Ballinger, Tex., about 50 miles south-southwest of Abilene. Hen-egg-sized hail came down to the southeast in Mason County, and adjacent Gillespie County reported “hail bigger than golf balls but smaller than tennis ball size.
Then activity shifted east toward the Interstate 35 corridor on Wednesday. The biggest hail fell near Waco, with a report of 4½-inch-diameter hail, again the size of a grapefruit, two miles east of the city., on the west side of Waco. That same storm had a history of dropping softball-sized hail in Comanche County to the northwest.
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