Name: Hail in Texas, June 11, 2002
Start: 2002-06-11T19:15
End: 2002-06-11T19:15
Location: Texas

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 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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 1:15 PM CST, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:15 PM CST, 6 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
215 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

CUMULUS FORMING FROM DAVIS MOUNTAINS TO FORT STOCKTON...THEN SOUTH
THROUGH THE BIG BEND.  CLOUD COVER AND SUBSIDENCE UNDER RIDGE
PRECLUDING MUCH...IF ANY...CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE
CWA.  NOT OPTIMISTIC FOR THUNDERSTORM CHANCES OVER MOST OF THE PLAINS
THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING...THE EXCEPTION BEING PECOS AND POSSIBLY
TERRELL COUNTIES.  THINK CAP WILL BE TOO STRONG...EVEN ALONG DRYLINE
OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA.  WILL CARRY CHANCE OF TSRA DAVIS
MOUNTAIN/BIG BEND GROUP AS HEATING OF HIGHER TERRAIN...COPIOUS
MOISTURE...AND RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES LOOK SUFFICIENT TO BREAK
THE CAP.  HEAVY RAIN/FLASH FLOODING WILL AGAIN BE A PROBLEM THESE
AREAS...ESPECIALLY WHEN FACTORING IN RAINFALL TOTALS FROM THE LAST
COUPLE OF DAYS.  OTHERWISE...WILL CARRY SLIGHT CHANCES OVER WEST AND
NORTHWEST FRINGE OF CWA.

THINK WE/LL SEE LESS CONVECTION WEDNESDAY/WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS RIDGE
PROGGED TO BE STRONGER.  AVN IS THE OUTLIER TO THIS SCENARIO AS IT
GENERATES STRONG VORTICITY MAXIMA...POSSIBLY DUE TO DEVELOPMENT OF
AN MCS WEDNESDAY NIGHT.  FOR NOW...WILL GO WITH STRONGER RIDGE AND
WEAK TO NO VORTICITY MAX PER ETA.  FRONT STILL PROGGED TO DROP INTO
THE NORTHERN CWA LATE THURSDAY.  WITH ATTENDANT SHORTWAVE TROUGH...
WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS ACROSS NORTH THURSDAY NIGHT AND SLIGHT
CHANCE MOST OTHER LOCATIONS.  CHANCE POPS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES
LOOK GOOD FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT WITH FRONT IN AREA WITH POSSIBLE
MCS FRIDAY NIGHT.

IN THE EXTENDED...SHOULD SEE SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES AND A
CONTINUED SLIGHT CHANCE OF CONVECTION SATURDAY.  RIDGE REMAINS
SOUTHWEST OF THE AREA THROUGH REST OF EXTENDED.  SHOULD SEE WARMER
TEMPERATURES AND LITTLE RAIN DURING THIS TIME.

MAF   075/097/074/097   --11
LSA   072/096/072/096   --11
6R6   076/096/075/095   ----
MRF   064/093/062/091   3122
CNM   069/102/070/100   1---

.MAF...
TX...NONE.
NM...NONE.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Brewster

When: June 11, 7:15 PM CST
Where: Brewster County, Panther Junction
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: PARK/FOREST SERVICE
Coordinates: 29.300, -103.300

Big Bend National Park rangers reported golfball size hail.

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

More

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5301771.