Hail in Texas, March 19, 2002

Name: Hail in Texas, March 19, 2002
Start: 2002-03-19T04:00
End: 2002-03-19T04:00
Location: Texas

March 19, 2002 · NWS SJT · 1 event in 1 county or zone

An isolated severe thunderstorm produced quarter size hail as it passed across Junction.

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 SJT wrote it up.

An isolated severe thunderstorm produced quarter size hail as it passed across Junction.

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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 3:05 AM CST, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:05 AM CST, 55 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
305 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

PRIMARY FEATURES OF CONCERN THIS MORNING INCLUDE NEARLY STATIONARY
FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SW TO NE FROM SOUTHEASTERN CWA INTO
ARK AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDING NE FROM UPPER
LEVEL LOW OVER NW MEXICO.  THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING ALONG AND
NORTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MUCH OF THE NIGHT. EXPECT CONTINUATION
OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH TODAY AND INTO THE EVENING WITH
EXPECTED STRONG CONVERGENCE ALONG A DEVELOPING FRONTAL BOUNDARY
COMBINED WITH GOOD SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFTING AS UPPER TROUGH
APPROACHES... HAVE BUMPED POPS UP ACCORDINGLY. LATEST MESOETA HAS
CENTER OF UPPER LOW PASSING THROUGH CWA TONIGHT BEFORE OPENING AND
LIFTING NE OUT OF THE AREA.

WARMING TEMPS ON TAP INTO THE WEEKEND WITH A CHANCE OF PRECIP THE
FIRST OF NEXT WEEK AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM... BUT WILL FOREGO
MENTIONING CHANCE OF PRECIP ATTM.

ABI 064/043/062/040 9500
SJT 065/044/064/039 8500
JCT 068/046/065/038 9600

.SJT...NONE.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Kimble

When: March 19, 4:00 AM CST
Where: Kimble County, Junction
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.483, -99.767

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, March 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: 5285727.