Severe Weather Outbreak This Week

Despite an overall relatively quiet weather pattern, there have been some severe thunderstorms over the past ten days.

With the large-scale dip in the upper-level jet in the East, severe weather has remained confined since Easter weekend.

Jet-stream level pattern forecast for Monday into Tuesday, April 8-9.

Schematic forecast map showing near-surface moist air returning northward from the Gulf of Mexico.

Destructive hail pelted parts of Texas, including the cities of Hitchcock, Freer, Benavides, and Alice (see third video above).
There have even been a couple of tornadoes, including a particularly photogenic "stovepipe" tornado filmed on April Fool's Day near Silverton, Texas (see fourth video above).
However, there have been no widespread severe weather outbreaks since a series of damaging hailstorms in the South on March 18.  And we've just come off the least active March for U.S. tornadoes since at least 1978.

http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-outbreak-south-20130404