1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 30 minutes earlier.
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.
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
DCPRELIMINARY 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
DCPRELIMINARY 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
DCPRELIMINARY 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
DCPRELIMINARY 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
DCPRELIMINARY 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
DCThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorm winds knocked over trees, and blew down tree limbs in and around the LaPryor area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2002
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: 5285404.