Hail, Randall
- When
- July 23, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County, 15 mi ESE of Canyon
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
- Coordinates
- 34.900, -101.667
Hail in Texas, July 23, 2002
An isolated severe thunderstorm with hail developed over the Palo Duro Canyon State Park during the early evening hours.
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 happened
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm with hail developed over the Palo Duro Canyon State Park during the early evening hours.
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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002 ATMOSPHERE MUCH MORE STABLE OVER FORECAST AREA AS COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. CONVECTION FOCUS WILL AROUND LEFT-OVER BOUNDARIES. CHANCE POPS ACROSS AREA LOOK GOOD FOR TONIGHT AND MAY GO CATEGORICAL IN SOME AREAS. LACK OF STRONG STEERING FLOW WILL STILL LEND TO STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. ONLY OTHER CONCERN IS WINDS. CURRENT MODELS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE AND CURRENT OBS ARE ALSO. WILL GO WITH IDEA OF WINDS VEERING TO SOUTHWEST THROUGH THURSDAY. SLIGHT CHANCE AFTERNOON/EVENING ACTIVITY ON WEDNESDAY ALSO IN LINE WITH ATMOSPHERE STABILIZING SOMEWHAT UNDER BROAD RIDGE. AM CONCERNED THAT CHANCE POPS IN NORTHWEST ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY NIGHT MAY BE OVERDONE. CURRENT MODEL RUNS DO NOT SUPPORT THIS AND WILL TAPER THEM BACK FOR NOW. THIS WILL ALSO FALL IN LINE WITH SURROUNDING AREA FORECASTS. TEMPS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS LOOK TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE WITH MODEL GUIDANCE REFLECTING NUMBERS THAT ARE FAIRLY REALISTIC. FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD...BROAD RIDGE CONTINUES INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK SO WARM DRY FORECAST WILL PERSIST. GFS NOW INDICATING A SHORTWAVE UNDER-CUTTING THE RIDGE AND DEVELOPING OVER THE PANHANDLE REGION BY TUESDAY. AGAIN...WILL NOT TOUCH FORECAST IN THIS TIME FRAME UNTIL MODEL RUNS A LITTLE MORE CONSISTENT ON THIS FEATURE. FCSTID = 1 AMARILLO 65 93 67 95 / 40 20 20 00 BEAVER 65 96 69 97 / 30 20 20 00 BOISE CITY 61 94 65 95 / 30 20 20 00 BORGER 64 94 67 96 / 30 20 20 00 BOYS RANCH 63 94 66 95 / 40 20 20 00 CANYON 64 94 67 95 / 40 20 20 00 CLARENDON 69 94 71 96 / 40 20 20 00 DALHART 63 93 66 95 / 30 20 20 00 GUYMON 64 96 68 97 / 30 20 20 00 HEREFORD 64 94 67 96 / 40 20 20 00 LIPSCOMB 66 95 70 97 / 30 20 20 00 PAMPA 66 94 69 97 / 40 20 20 00 SHAMROCK 71 94 72 98 / 40 20 20 00 WELLINGTON 71 94 72 98 / 40 20 20 00 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. GARCIA
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:02 UTC.
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
- Rip Current in Florida, July 23, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 23, 2002
- Heat in California, July 23, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 23, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maine, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 23, 2002
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 23, 2002
More
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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: 5307356.