Name: Hail in Texas, April 7, 2002
Start: 2002-04-07T23:20
End: 2002-04-07T23:40
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 9:15 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 9:15 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1015 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT WHICH HAS JUST ABOUT RUN ITS COURSE FOR THE EASTERN TIER OF
COUNTIES BUT IS STILL ONGOING ACROSS FRIO...ATASCOSA AND WILSON
COUNTIES AT THIS WRITING.  ZONES HAVE BEEN UPDATED AND MODIFIED
SOMEWHAT TO REFLECT ONGOING CONVECTION AND CONTINUATION OF WW #75
AND CANCELLATION OF WW #74.  BENEFICIAL RAINS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS
JUST ABOUT ALL COUNTIES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.EWX...NONE.

PREVIOUS DISCUSSION
UPPER LOW MOVING EAST ACROSS NEW MEXICO WITH TRAILING DRY LINE FROM
SOUTHEAST OF MIDLAND TO SANDERSON.  CURRENT PROJECTIONS ARE FOR THE
DRY LINE TO PUSH INTO FAR WESTERN PORTIONS OF OUR AREA BY 4
PM...MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PORTIONS BY MIDNIGHT...EASTERN PORTIONS
LATE TONIGHT.  AS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED...THIS SHOULD BE A SQUALL
LINE TYPE EVENT WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL...HIGH WINDS ALONG THE LINE
AND BOW TORNADOES.

SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL EXIT THE EASTERN PORTIONS BY NOON TOMORROW
WITH CLEARING SKIES AND WARM TEMPERATURES AS DRY WESTERLY AIR MIXES
DOWN. MOSTLY CLEAR MONDAY NIGHT AS RIDGING BUILDS IN.  INCREASING
MID AND HIGH CLOUDS BY WEDNESDAY AS DIFLUENT AXIS AHEAD OF NEXT
SYSTEM MOVES IN FROM THE WEST.  SEVERAL DAYS OF DREARY WEATHER IN
STORE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS UPPER LOW TO WEST APPROACHES AND
OPENS GULF.  SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN BY FRIDAY INTO
SATURDAY AS TROUGH MOVES ACROSS...DECREASING CLOUDS SUNDAY.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AUS 64/81/57/78/54 84000
DRT 58/88/58/82/60 50000
SAT 62/85/58/80/57 82000

.EWX...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES EASTERN HALF.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 7, 7:18 PM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
818 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0725 PM    DHANIS                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02   MEDINA                         REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER

0730 PM    BLANCO                    TX   FUNNEL CLOUDS
04/07/02   BLANCO                         FUNNEL CLOUDS
                                          REPORTED BY
                                          CO-OP OBSERVER

DC

Local storm report, Apr 7, 7:46 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
846 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0829 PM    7E FRIO TOWN              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02   FRIO                           REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS

DC

Local storm report, Apr 7, 8:39 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
939 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0847 PM    BIGFOOT                   TX   TORNADO
04/07/02   FRIO                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

DC

Local storm report, Apr 7, 9:02 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1002 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0945 PM    FLORESVILLE               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02   WILSON                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

DC

Local storm report, Apr 7, 9:55 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1055 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    2.5 N DEVINE              TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/07/02   MEDINA                         TWO MOBILE HOMES
                                          DESTROYED. VEHICLE PICKED
                                          UP AND SLAMMED DOWN
                                          REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

DC

Local storm report, Apr 7, 11:00 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1200 AM CDT MON APR 8 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1155 PM    SHAVANO PARK SAN ANTONIO  TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02   BEXAR                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

DC

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bexar

When: April 7, 11:20 PM CST to 11:40 PM CST
Where: Bexar County, San Antonio
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates: 29.417, -98.500

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5285402.