Hail, Madison
- When
- February 19, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County, 2 mi S of Normangee
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.000, -96.117
Hail in Texas, February 19, 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
- $1,000
- 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 19, 10:16 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 10:16 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1016 AM CST TUE FEB 19 2002
DESPITE THE AREA SOUNDINGS INDICATING A RATHER DECENT CAP...WE DID
MANAGE TO SEE SOME HEALTHY RAIN OVER THE OFFICE EARLIER THIS MORNING
WITH A WEAK S/W THAT MOVED ACROSS. THE BIG DEBATE REMAINS WHETHER OR
NOT WE WILL SEE SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON. AT THIS TIME AM
INCLINED TO JUST STICK WITH THE CURRENT ZONE CONFIGURATION - MENTION
OF SEVERE ONLY FOR LOCATIONS EAST OF I-45. HOWEVER...SHOULD WE CLEAR
SOME OF THESE CLOUDS BEHIND THIS INTIAL S/W...WE COULD BE LOOKING AT
SOME ZONE UPDATES. IN THE MEANWHILE...INGREDIENTS STILL IN PLACE FOR
AT LEAST A DECENT CHANCE OF CONVECTION WITH THE THE COLD FRONT/UPPER
TROF AXIS. ABUNDANT MOISTURE...STRONG LOW-LEVEL WINDS...BUT MARGINAL
CAPES/SHEAR. 41/37
.HGX...SCEC BAYS.
SCA COASTAL WATERS.
PREVIOUS PRELIMS...
CLL TU 074/046 072/044 073 600
NE 720
IAH TU 075/047 073/045 074 620
GLS TU 071/055 067/055 069 620
SW 300The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, February 19, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 19, 2002
- High Wind in Kentucky, February 19 to 20, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, February 19 to 21, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, February 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, February 19, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, February 19, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 19 to 20, 2002
- Hail in Missouri, February 19, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, February 19 to 20, 2002
- Funnel Cloud in U.S. Virgin Islands, February 19, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, February 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 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: 5281003.