Hail, Williamson
- When
- November 26, 4:45 AM CST to 4:55 AM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, Leander
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 30.583, -97.850
Hail in Texas, November 26, 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 Nov 26, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 300 AM CST TUE NOV 26 2002 CURRENT WEATHER ANALYSIS... THE PAST 24 HOURS HAS GIVEN THE REGION A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE FOLLOWED WITH A BUILDING RIDGE INTO THE REGION...CLOUDY SKIES AND OVERRUNNING PRECIPITATION. SURFACE WINDS NORTH TO NORTHEAST WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S. 88D RADAR SHOWS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. CURRENT MODEL GUIDANCE ANALYSIS... THE 00Z AVN MOS AND THE NGM MOS BOTH HAVE BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES FORECASTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE ETA TIME HEIGHT FOR THE HILL COUNTRY HAS 100 PERCENT R/H VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES FROM 5 TO 8K TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...WITH A VERY DRY LOWER LAYER AT THE SURFACE TO 5K. AVN PRECIPITABLE WATER IS AROUND 0.8 INCHES. THE GFS...ETA AND NGM ALL HAVE SIMILAR TRENDS IN THAT THEY BRING REINFORCING RIDGES INTO AND ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEK. THIS FOLLOWS YESTERDAYS GUIDANCE INDICATING ANOTHER FRONT INTO THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY AND YET ANOTHER ON SATURDAY. 500MB GUIDANCE BRING KEEP SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH A DEEP LOW OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BAJA THROUGH 72 HOURS. CURRENT WEATHER OUTLOOK... THE BIG QUESTIONS IS...THE POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN ACROSS HILL COUNTRY COUNTIES TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. LOOK FOR COLD AIR ADVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM TO MOVE INTO THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY...TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NOT AS COLD AS EXPECTED AND PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OVER THE HILL COUNTRY TOO LOW TO PROVIDE ENOUGH MOISTURE. ONGOING RAIN/SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY WITH A DECREASING TREND LATE TODAY AND INTO THE NIGHT WITH MOST PRECIPITATION OCCURRING SOUTH OF THE HILL COUNTRY AS DIRER AIR CONTINUES TO FILTER SOUTHWARD WITH THE BUILDING RIDGE. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 45/35/47/35/50 64320 DRT 45/35/45/35/50 54320 SAT 47/37/47/35/52 64320 .EWX...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 25, 5:42 AM CST, 23 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-261200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 542 AM CST MON NOV 25 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS 2 THROUGH 7... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF FREEZING RAIN IN THE HILL COUNTRY TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING AS TEMPERATURES APPROACH THE FREEZING MARK. IF FREEZING RAIN DOES DEVELOP...ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BRIEF AND VERY LIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 26, 3:33 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
333 AM CST TUE NOV 26 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0235 AM BULVERDE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
11/26/02 BEXAR
PMThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Wildfire and High Wind in California, November 26, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, November 26 to 27, 2002
- Ice Storm and High Wind in Alaska, November 26 to 27, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, November 26 to 27, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, November 26 to 27, 2002
- Hail in Texas, November 26, 2002
- Hail in Texas, November 26, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, November 26, 2002
- High Wind in Montana, November 26, 2002
- Dense Fog in California, November 26, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, November 26 to 27, 2002
- High Wind in Alaska, November 26 to 27, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 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: 5323414.