Hail, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 5:46 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, 5 mi S of Taylor
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 30.500, -97.417
Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 26, 2002
8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $710,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 15
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 320 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 SHRA/TSRA AGAIN DEVELOPING ACRS THE NRN AND ERN CWA THIS AFTN AND WILL INCLUDE CHC POPS EAST AND SLGT CHC WEST MAINLY THRU THE EVENING HOURS. UPR LOW OVER TO GRADUALLY OPEN UP INTO A TROF WITH THE SRN END OF THE TROF MOVG WESTWARD AND PINCHING OFF AS A WEAK LOW OVER DEEP SOUTH TX BY FRI. NLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BCM WEAK SELY BY THE WEEKEND WITH A CONTD LOW CHC OF AMS/SEA BREEZE CONVECTION IN THE AFTN/EVENING. THE WEAK LOW WILL CONT WEST OVER THE WEEKEND WITH A FLAT RDG TO PREVAIL EARLY NEXT WEEK THRU MID WEEK...WITH LESSENING CHCS FOR PCPN. MOS MAXS REMAIN TOO COOL ON MAXS AND WILL UP CLOSER TO PERSISTENCE AND PREVIOUS FORECASTS. 01/07 PRELIMS... AUS BB 070/095 073/095 073 3423 DRT BB 078/100 078/100 077 1122 SAT BB 074/097 074/097 074 2323 .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 26, 5:23 PM CST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
623 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM MULDOON TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/02 FAYETTE
DCThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 5:46 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Taylor
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.567, -97.417
Roofs were damaged, with some blown off homes, by severe thunderstorm winds. A mobile home was also damaged by the severe winds. Over 9000 homes were without power in Cedar Park for several hours due to the storm.
Hail, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 5:55 PM CST to 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Georgetown
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.633, -97.667
Thunderstorm Wind, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 6:00 PM CST to 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Leander
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.583, -97.850
Large limbs were knocked out of trees and large trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds in a path that stretched from near Leander to Cedar Park.
Thunderstorm Wind, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 6:06 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Georgetown
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 30.633, -97.667
Trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds. Also, an 18-wheeler was blown over by the winds.
Hail, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 6:20 PM CST to 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Georgetown
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.633, -97.667
Hail, Bastrop
- When
- June 26, 6:20 PM CST to 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Bastrop County, 6 mi N of Elgin
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 30.433, -97.367
Thunderstorm Wind, Lee
- When
- June 26, 6:29 PM CST to 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County, 10 mi NW of Fedor
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 30.417, -97.167
Severe thunderstorm winds estimated at over 50 knots blew down numerous large branches from trees.
Hail, Lee
- When
- June 26, 6:29 PM CST to 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County, 10 mi NW of Fedor
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 30.417, -97.167
Hail, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 6:30 PM CST to 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Cedar Park
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.500, -97.817
Hail, Williamson
- When
- June 26, 6:37 PM CST to 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Round Rock
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 30.500, -97.683
Hail, Travis
- When
- June 26, 6:55 PM CST to 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Travis County, Lake Travis
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.433, -98.033
Thunderstorm Wind, Travis
- When
- June 26, 7:00 PM CST to 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Travis County, Lake Travis
- Measured
- 69 kt (79 mph)
- Property damage
- $300,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 30.433, -98.033
High winds and large hail struck Lake Travis, causing damage to windows and roofs of homes and boats in the area. The worst damage occurred when the high winds shoved a boat into the wall at Mansfield Dam with sufficient force to sink the boat.
Thunderstorm Wind, Travis
- When
- June 26, 7:08 PM CST to 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Travis County, Austin
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 30.283, -97.750
Thunderstorm Wind, Travis
- When
- June 26, 7:20 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Travis County, Austin
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 30.283, -97.750
Severe thunderstorm winds knocked down trees across the city of Austin. As many of the trees fell on utility lines, power was lost for several hours to around one thousand residents for a period of several hours.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 26, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in New York, June 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, June 26 to 27, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 26 to 29, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, June 26, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, June 26, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 26, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, June 26, 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: 5293866, 5293867, 5293868, 5293869, 5294102, 5294103, 5294106, 5294107, 5294108, 5294104, 5294105, 5294109, 5294110, 5294111, 5294112.