Hail, Bandera
- When
- May 2, 5:45 PM CST to 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Bandera County, Medina
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.800, -99.250
Hail in Texas, May 2, 2002
1 hail, 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
- 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 445 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED OVER REAL COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE CONVECTION IS OCCURRING WHERE THE COLD FRONT IS INTERSECTING THE DRY-LINE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S AT UVALDE...GUSTY WINDS AND WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. WILL UPDATE FCST TO ADD POPS TO THE HILL COUNTRY FOR THIS EVENING. 13/04 ...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... SHALLOW COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND BECOME STATIONARY ALONG THE COASTAL PLAINS TONIGHT. FRONTOLYSIS OCCURS TOMORROW AS SOUTHERLY FLOW BRIDGES FRONT ACROSS SOUTHEAST PORTIONS. WILL CALL FOR SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS TOMORROW SOUTHEAST WITH LITTLE DYNAMICS ALOFT. WEEKEND LOOKS MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CAPPED OFF SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE STREAMING IN FROM THE GULF. STILL VERY LITTLE IN WAY OF DYNAMICS ALOFT SO POPS NIL. NEXT WEEK LOOKS FAIRLY SEASONAL WITH CAPPED OFF CONDITIONS EXCEPT FOR MAYBE A STRAY THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER WESTERN PLATEAU AREAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON EVENING HOURS. GULF WIDE OPEN SO MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITINS SET EASTERN HALF WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. PRELIMS... AUS EE 060/086 068/088 072 0000 DRT BB 062/093 072/092 073 0000 SAT EE 065/090 072/089 072 2000 .EWX...NONE. 02/03
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:47 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Rip Currents in Florida, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 2 to 4, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornado in Maryland, May 2, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 2, 2002
- Hail in Illinois, May 2, 2002
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, May 2, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, May 2 to 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 2, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 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: 5293954.