1 tornado, 1 hail, 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, 2:15 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 315 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002 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
451 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM LAUGHLIN AFB TX 3.00 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY
OBSERVER
DCPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TO CHANGE TORNADO TO
FUNNEL CLOUD
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
458 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0423 PM 2NW DEL RIO TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE
0430 PM DEL RIO TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE
0435 PM DEL RIO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
0436 PM DEL RIO TX FUNNEL CLOUD
04/07/02 VAL VERDE SEVERAL REPORTS FROM
PUBLIC OF FUNNEL
CLOUDS
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
545 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0418 PM DEL RIO TX 3.00 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER
0425 PM DEL RIO TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY
OBSERVER
0450 PM DEL RIO TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0525 PM BRACKETTVILLE TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 KINNEY REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER
DCPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
650 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM BRACKETTVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
04/07/02 KINNEY TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0550 PM BRACKETTVILLE TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 KINNEY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0634 PM UVALDE TX TORNADO
04/07/02 UVALDE POSSIBLE ROTATION IN
CLOUDS
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORREECTED TO CHANGE TORNADO TO
FUNNEL CLOUD
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
701 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM BRACKETTVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
04/07/02 KINNEY TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0550 PM BRACKETTVILLE TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/07/02 KINNEY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0634 PM UVALDE TX FUNNEL CLOUD
04/07/02 UVALDE POSSIBLE ROTATION IN
CLOUDS
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
712 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM DEL RIO TX WIND DAMAGE
04/07/02 VAL VERDE SPANISH TILE ROOF, TRUCK
HAIL DAMAGE
REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
TIME ESTIMATED
0400 PM VAL VERDE PARK ESTATES
DEL RIO TX TORNADO
04/07/02 VAL VERDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
TIME ESTIMATED
DCThe Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The small and short-lived tornado touched down briefly near a home, destroying several trees while not damaging the house itself.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2002Warnings 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: 5285396, 5285397.