Hail, Hopkins
- When
- September 20, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hopkins County, Cumby
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.150, -95.564 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado and Hail in Texas, September 20, 1993
5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 9 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hopkins
- When
- September 20, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hopkins County, Cumby
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 33.150, -95.564 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado, Hunt
- When
- September 20, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hunt County, Caddo Mills
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.070, -96.200
A small tornado touched down briefly in open country.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hopkins
- When
- September 20, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Hopkins County, Cumby
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 33.150, -95.564 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorm Wind, Hunt
- When
- September 20, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hunt County, Quinlan
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 33.124, -96.085 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Trees and telephone poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
Hail, Hunt
- When
- September 20, 4:25 PM CST
- Where
- Hunt County, Caddo Mills
- Measured
- 4.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.124, -96.085 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorm Wind, Hunt
- When
- September 20, 4:25 PM CST
- Where
- Hunt County, Caddo Mills
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 33.124, -96.085 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Collin
- When
- September 20, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Collin County, Plano
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.188, -96.572 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Dallas
- When
- September 20, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County, Dallas
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.767, -96.778 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorm Wind, Tarrant
- When
- September 20, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Tarrant County, Arlington
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 32.772, -97.291 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The roof was blown off of a home in north Arlington.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Texas in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1993Warnings in Texas, September 1993
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10351283, 10351284, 10350127, 10351285, 10350128, 10350129, 10350130, 10347928, 10352326, 10352710.