Hail, Hockley
- When
- June 11, 5:52 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County, Pettit
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 33.700, -102.533
Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 11, 2002
2 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Events
- 3
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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 1:28 PM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:28 PM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 228 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002 AFTERNOON SFC ANALYSIS AGAIN SIMILAR TO YESTERDAYS WITH DRYLINE AT 19Z LOCATED FROM NEAR DIMMITT SOUTHWEST TO NEAR CARLSBAD. EXPECT IT TO SLOWLY PUSH EAST THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE FAR WESTERN CWFA WITH A LITTLE FURTHER EASTWARD BULGE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TX PANHANDLE. CONVERGENCE ALONG DRYLINE AGAIN LOOKS BETTER ACROSS THE PANHANDLE INTO MY NORTHERN CWFA...AND WILL PLACE CHANCE POPS IN THIS AREA. MAY SEE ISOLATED HIGH BASED STORMS FIRE ALONG DRYLINE ACROSS THE FAR WESTERN CWFA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN THE UPPER 90S ARE REALIZED BUT CAP STRENGTH SHOULD PRECLUDE MOST DEVELOPMENT. SAME SETUP LOOKS TO OCCUR ON WEDNESDAY AS WELL. LOOKING NORTH...COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM NORTH CENTRAL KS INTO FAR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. LATEST AVN AND ETA MODELS NOW COMING INTO AGREEMENT ON FRONT MOVING THRU THE SOUTH PLAINS THURSDAY. HARD TO BELIEVE ANOTHER DECENT FRONT COMING IN MID JUNE BUT GIVEN PROGGED MOVEMENT OF POTENT UPPER LOW MOVING FROM NORTH DAKOTA/CANADA BORDER INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST WEDNESDAY...SCENARIO SEEMS QUITE PROBABLE. GOING FORECAST REFLECTING INCREASED CHANCES OF RAIN AREAWIDE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY LOOK GOOD WITH FRONT IN AREA. MAX TEMPS ON THURSDAY WILL BE STRONGLY DEPENDENT ON TIMING OF FROPA. AT THIS TIME...WILL RAISE THURDAY MAXES UP A BIT SINCE FRONT NOT EXPECTED UNTIL LATE IN THE DAY. FLOW ALOFT WILL ALSO HAVE TRANSITIONED TO THE NORTHWEST BY THIS TIME AS UPPER TROF DIGS INTO THE MIDWEST AND UPPER HIGH RETROGRADES TO OVER NORTHWEST MEXICO. MODELS HINTING AT MCS GENERATING ACROSS NE NEW MEXICO AREA LATE THURSDAY THEN MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD AREA THAT NIGHT. CONTINUED NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SHOULD PROVIDE A CHANCE OF ANY CONVECTION ROLLING OFF THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND...MAINLY DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS. PRELIM NUMBERS... FRIONA 67/95/66/87 2223 TULIA 68/96/66/88 3333 LUBBOCK 71/97/70/91 2223 BROWNFIELD 69/97/69/92 2223 CHILDRESS 72/96/72/90 3344 ASPERMONT 73/96/73/93 1123 .LUB...NONE ELLIS
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:53 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Hockley
- When
- June 11, 8:30 PM CST to 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County, 1 mi S of Arnett
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.608, -102.343 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Portions of Farm-to-Market Road 3261 were closed south of town due to flood waters.
Hail, Hockley
- When
- June 11, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County, 2 mi NW of Lockettville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.400, -102.333
Hail up to golfball size destroyed crops.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 11, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 11, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 11 to 12, 2002
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 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: 5302590, 5302592, 5302591.