Hail, Lubbock
- When
- April 27, 12:19 AM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County, 5 mi SW of Lubbock
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 33.533, -101.917
Hail in Texas, April 27, 2002
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 26, 8:55 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 8:55 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 955 PM CDT FRI APR 26 2002 SUPERCELLS OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE CWFA. THESE STORMS WILL BE ELEVATED SO THE SEVERE THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL. I ADDED FOG TO THE EASTERN ZONE BUT AS STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS CWFA...THE FOG SHOULD LIFT. DRYLINE WILL PUSH EAST ACROSS THE CWFA BY 6 AM. .LUB...TXZ022>26-28>32-34>38-40>44 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST. 20
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:48 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ022>026-028>032-034>038-040>044-270800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 948 PM CDT FRI APR 26 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 154 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CASTRO... SWISHER... BRISCOE... HALL... CHILDRESS... LAMB... HALE... FLOYD... MOTLEY... COTTLE... HOCKLEY... LUBBOCK... CROSBY... DICKENS... KING... TERRY... LYNN... GARZA... KENT AND STONEWALL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Missouri, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Missouri, April 27, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 27 to 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 27, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, April 27 to 30, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, April 27 to 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 27, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2002
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: 5289240.