Texas, 2002

Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, April 25, 2002

April 25, 2002 · NWS SJT · 3 events in 1 county or zone

Slow moving thunderstorms across the Big Country produced very heavy rains of up to 12 inches and isolated hail reports of one inch. Albany was hit especially hard as a flash flood swept through the town.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Property damage
$3.0 million
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.

Slow moving thunderstorms across the Big Country produced very heavy rains of up to 12 inches and isolated hail reports of one inch. Albany was hit especially hard as a flash flood swept through the town.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 25, 10:44 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 10:44 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1144 AM CDT THU APR 25 2002

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED IN COVERAGE...AND HAVE BECOME NUMEROUS
ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY LATE THIS MORNING. ISENTROPIC LIFT AND
SHORTWAVE IMPULSES ALOFT ARE AIDING IN THIS PROCESS. ISOLATED SHOWERS
OCCURRING FARTHER SOUTH. TEMPERATURES HAVE REMAINED NEARLY STEADY
THROUGH THE MORNING...AND HAVE ACTUALLY FALLEN A COUPLE OF DEGREES AT
ABILENE. WITH PERSISTENT CLOUDCOVER THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND WEDGE
OF COOL AIR REMAINING OVER THE REGION...EXPECT LITTLE TEMPERATURE
RECOVERY. BASED ON THUNDERSTORM AND TEMPERATURE TRENDS...WILL SEND A
ZONE UPDATE TO BOOST POPS ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. WILL ALSO CUT HIGH
TEMPERATURES FOR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TX.

.SJT...NONE.

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The radar

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Event by event

2 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Shackelford

When
April 25, 11:48 AM CST to 12:03 PM CST
Where
Shackelford County, 9 mi W of Albany
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
32.733, -99.450

Dime to quarter size hail fell for 15 minutes.

Hail, Shackelford

When
April 25, 1:41 PM CST
Where
Shackelford County, Albany
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
32.733, -99.300

Flash Flood, Shackelford

When
April 25, 2:05 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where
Shackelford County, Albany
Deaths
1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage
$3.0 million
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
32.736, -99.354 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Storms remained nearly stationary producing 8 to 12 inches of rain in and around the Albany area. The deluge produced significant flooding in Albany. The hardest hit areas were on the north and west parts of town. The North Hubbard Creek and Gourd Creek came out of their banks. More than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed due to the flood.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

EventDateAgeSexWhereKind
Flash Flood, Shackelford2002-04-2519FemaleMobile/Trailer HomeDirect

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5288133, 5288134, 5288135.