Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 13 to 14, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 13 to 14, 2002
Start: 2002-08-13T23:10
End: 2002-08-14T19:30
Location: Texas

August 13 to 14, 2002 · NWS FWD · 13 events in 8 counties and zones

9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $147,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 13

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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
955 PM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002

BUSY LATE EVENING BEGINNING TO UNFOLD AS BROAD MID LVL TROUGH FROM
NEBRASKA TO NEW MEXICO TRUDGES EAST TOWARDS NORTH TEXAS. FRONTAL BOUNDARY
GENERALLY LAID OUT SW-NE FROM NEAR MIDLAND...TO ABILENE...TO NEAR
BOWIE...TO TULSA OK. ORIGINAL SEVERE STORMS BLEW UP IN WARM...
UNSTABLE SECTOR AND PROPAGATED SSWD TOWARDS AREA OF GREATEST
INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND
MIDLAND...WHILE NORTH-CENTRAL TX WAS SPARE. NOW HOWEVER...ANOTHER
SQUALL LINE/LINEAR MCS HAS DEVELOPED...SOMEWHAT ELEVATED BETWEEN
CHILDRESS AND WICHITA FALLS AS MAIN SHORTWAVE ROTATES THROUGH BASE
OF LONGWAVE TROUGH IN FAR WEST TX AND TOWARDS NORTH TX.

AGREE WITH SPC THAT SEMI-ELEVATED...SEVERE STORMS WILL BE A
THREAT...MAINLY ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY WHERE BETTER MID LVL
SPEED SHEAR EXISTS ALONG WITH BETTER FEED FROM LOW LVL JET. SOME
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. THUS...SEVERE TSTORM
WATCH 607 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT FOR THE NORTHERN 2 TIERS OF
COUNTIES (SEE WARNINGS/ADVISORIES SUMMARY BELOW AND FTWSLSTX OR
FTWSEL7 FOR FURTHER DETAILS). OTHERWISE...ADJUSTED ARRIVAL OF COOLER
N/NW WINDS AND CONVECTION TO OCCUR LATER IN THE NIGHT WITH JUST
MINOR TWEAKS TO OVERNIGHT LOWS/DEW PTS.

FCSTID = 05/
DFW   71  85  66  92 /  60  20   0   0
ACT   74  88  69  92 /  40  50   0   0
PRX   68  83  62  92 /  70  80   0   0
DTO   69  83  62  92 /  70  80   0   0
TKI   70  83  62  92 /  70  80   0   0
DAL   73  85  66  92 /  60  20   0   0
TRL   71  85  66  92 /  60  20   0   0
CRS   73  87  67  92 /  40  20   0   0
TPL   73  90  68  90 /  40  30   0   0

.FWD...
.TX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 200 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR ZONES TXC085...TXC097... TXC119...TXC121... TXC147...TXC181
...TXC223...TXC231 ...TXC237...TXC277...TXC337...TXC497 (RED RIVER
VALLEY).

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Event by event

9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Grayson

When: August 13, 11:10 PM CST
Where: Grayson County, Pottsboro
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.750, -96.667

Numerous trees and power lines blown down by high winds.

Thunderstorm Wind, Grayson

When: August 13, 11:10 PM CST
Where: Grayson County, Gordonville
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.800, -96.850

Wind overturned an 18 wheeler on State Highway 377 where it crosses Lake Texhoma.

Thunderstorm Wind, Grayson

When: August 13, 11:30 PM CST
Where: Grayson County, 8 mi NW of Denison
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph)
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 33.833, -96.650

A storage shed was destroyed when a tree was blown down on it, and a mobile home was destroyed when it was blown into another mobile home. There were numerous reports of trees blocking roads and streets.

Thunderstorm Wind, Grayson

When: August 13, 11:45 PM CST
Where: Grayson County, Denison
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph)
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 33.750, -96.550

A metal awning was blown off a service station, and many streets were blocked from downed trees and limbs.

Thunderstorm Wind, Fannin

When: August 14, 12:45 AM CST
Where: Fannin County, Duplex
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.767, -96.150

Large trees were down on County Road 2030.

Thunderstorm Wind, Fannin

When: August 14, 1:00 AM CST
Where: Fannin County, Windom
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.567, -96.000

Large trees and power lines were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lamar

When: August 14, 1:10 AM CST to 1:15 AM CST
Where: Lamar County, Brookston
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.617, -95.700

Large trees and power lines were blown down in Brookston, and at Lamar Point on the southwest corner of Pat Mayse Lake.

Lightning, Lamar

When: August 14, 3:00 AM CST
Where: Lamar County, Sumner
Property damage: $75,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 33.667, -95.571 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A lightning started fire burned down a house near Sumner.

Hail, Johnson

When: August 14, 3:25 PM CST
Where: Johnson County, Cleburne
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.350, -97.400

Thunderstorm Wind, Bosque

When: August 14, 5:00 PM CST
Where: Bosque County, Walnut Spgs
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 32.067, -97.750

A few large tree limbs were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hamilton

When: August 14, 6:10 PM CST
Where: Hamilton County, Hico
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.983, -98.033

Power lines were blown down by high winds.

Hail, Comanche

When: August 14, 6:37 PM CST
Where: Comanche County, Comanche
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.900, -98.617

Hail, Mills

When: August 14, 7:30 PM CST
Where: Mills County, Priddy
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 31.667, -98.517

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
Lightning: A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
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

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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: 5311319, 5311320, 5311325, 5311326, 5311321, 5311322, 5311323, 5311324, 5311317, 5311318, 5311316, 5311315, 5311314.