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Storm reports for March 24, 2021

NOAA recorded 76 hail reports, 2 wind reports and 2 tornado reports in 4 states on March 24, 2021.

in 4 states
80
Storm reports
About 10 miles from Fort Worth, TX
3.0 in
Largest hail
About 44 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
58 mph
Highest gust
2
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on March 24, 2021 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

On the evening of March 24, 2021, hail up to 3 inches across fell in Tarrant County, Texas, near Haslet, around 7:55 p.m. CST.1,2 NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $58 million in property damage for a 3-inch hail report near West Bonds Ranch Road and $50 million for a 2-inch report about 3 miles south-southwest of Haslet.1,3 Around 8:20 p.m., hail of 1.5 to 2.5 inches fell in western Flower Mound in Denton County, and the database lists $60 million in damage there.4 Earlier, around 5:25 p.m., tennis ball size hail near Canton in Van Zandt County did considerable damage to vehicle windshields.5

Around 3:28 a.m. CST on March 25, hail 2 inches across fell in northeastern Austin.6 In Centreville, Mississippi, thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a mobile home around 2:10 p.m. on March 24, killing one person inside.7

Sources

  1. 1. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 948054, hail, Tarrant County, Texas
  2. 2. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 948056, hail, Tarrant County, Texas
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 948079, hail, Tarrant County, Texas
  4. 4. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 950354, hail, Denton County, Texas
  5. 5. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 948007, hail, Van Zandt County, Texas
  6. 6. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 949497, hail, Travis County, Texas
  7. 7. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 949942, thunderstorm wind, Wilkinson County, Mississippi

Reports by hour

Hail76, most at 9 PM

Wind2, most at 3 PM

Tornado2, most at 7 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
7:03 PMNot ratedAbout 45 miles from Killeen, TX0.95 mi long, 50 yd wide
7:32 PMNot ratedAbout 37 miles from Waco, TX0.53 mi long, 50 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Texas706802
Arkansas6600
Mississippi3120
Louisiana1100

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Fort Worth, TX3.0 inNone0
Denton, TX2.5 inNone0
Lewisville, TX2.5 inNone0
Austin, TX2.0 inNone0
Round Rock, TX2.0 inNone0
Allen, TX1.75 inNone0
Frisco, TX1.75 inNone0
McKinney, TX1.75 inNone0
Plano, TX1.75 inNone0
Carrollton, TX1.5 inNone0
Dallas, TX1.0 inNone0
Garland, TX1.0 inNone0
Mesquite, TX1.0 inNone0
Waco, TX0.75 inNone0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.