Numerous severe storms resulted in large hail and flash flooding across parts of southwest Texas on the 20th. when a severe storm produced large hail in Van Horn.
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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.
The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Numerous severe storms resulted in large hail and flash flooding across parts of southwest Texas on the 20th. The event persisted into the early morning hours of the 21st...when a severe storm produced large hail in Van Horn.
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 20, 1:00 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 200 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 RIDGE ALOFT AND WARM TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN ANCHORED ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. SURFACE DEWPOINTS AOA 60F EXTENDING WESTWARD TO THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WITH AMPLE INSTABILITY PER KMAF MORNING SOUNDING RESULTING IN ISOLATED STORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. CONVECTION IS BEING ENHANCED BY A WEAK UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS NEW MEXICO ALONG WESTERN PERIPHERY OF UPPER RIDGE PER CURRENT WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. DUE TO INSTABILITY AND WEAK WINDS ALOFT... EXPECT A FEW LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING STORMS TO SLOWLY DRIFT OFF THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND BRIEFLY PULSE TO NEAR SEVERE WITH STRONG DOWNDRAFTS AND SOME HAIL PRIOR TO WEAKENING AROUND SUNSET. THETA-E RIDGE TO SHIFT WEST OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THEN DRIFT EASTWARD ACROSS WEST TEXAS EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL RESULT IN A SLIGHT COOLING OF MAX TEMPS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...WITH THE RETURN TO 30+C 850MB TEMPERATURES AND SOME TRIPLE DIGIT AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. MAF 070/095/069/094 0000 LSA 069/095/068/094 0000 6R6 074/095/073/096 0000 MRF 062/090/060/088 1111 CNM 070/098/068/097 1111 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. R.FAGEN
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 221 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:25 UTC.
4 hail, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail ranging from the size of dimes to ping pong balls was reported in the city of Fort Davis.
Ping pong ball size hail was reported by the National Park Service 15 miles south of the intersection of Highways 180 and 54 in western Culberson County.
Hail up to nickel size covered the ground in Presidio.
The Texas Department of Transportation reported flash flooding resulting in high water in homes and businesses...as well as street flooding in the city of Presidio.
The Texas Department of Transportation reported 1.5 feet of water flooding FM170.
A severe thunderstorm developed over Culberson County just after midnight local time...resulting in nickel size hail in the city of Van Horn.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2002
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: 5301978, 5301980, 5301979, 5301976, 5301977, 5301888.