Hail, Comal
- When
- October 8, 4:28 PM CST to 4:35 PM CST
- Where
- Comal County, New Braunfels
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 29.700, -98.133
Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, October 8, 2002
1 hail, 1 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
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Oct 8, 1:23 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 1:23 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 223 PM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOOD EVENT UNDERWAY FOR MUCH OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE CULPRIT...A SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW...IS CURRENTLY INCHING EASTWARD OVER EL PASO. A PACIFIC MID LEVEL MOISTURE TAP IS OBVIOUS ON ENHANCED WV IMAGERY... AND A LOW LEVEL GULF OF MEXICO MOISTURE TAP CAN BE SEEN FROM VAD WIND PROFILES AND SURFACE OBS WITH SOUTHEAST WINDS AND 70S DEW POINT TEMPS. WILL LEAVE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN PLACE THROUGH 6 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY SHIFT FROM A FLASH FLOOD THREAT TO A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THREAT OVERNIGHT ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA...AS DRY MID LEVEL AIR WORKS OVER THE AREA WITH COOLER TEMPS ALOFT. HOWEVER...SPC DOES NOT HAVE SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOKED FOR SEVERE AT THIS POINT. THE TREND FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL BE DECREASING POPS AND DEW POINT TEMPS...AS THE LOW EJECTS ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE ASSOCIATED 500MB TROUGH TAIL-DRAGS ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS. COLD FRONT TO FOLLOW IT DOWN LATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...BUT BASICALLY IS JUST A DRY AIRMASS...LEADING TO LARGER DIURNAL TEMP FLUCTUATIONS. AREAS OF FOG FORECAST FOR THURSDAY MORNING...MAY END UP WIDESPREAD DENSE FOG BASED ON CLEARING WITH SATURATED GROUNDS. WILL SEE A BREAK FROM LATE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WITH MAX TEMPS A CAT HIGHER EACH DAY. THEN...A COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO COME BARRELING SOUTH ACROSS THE CWA SUNDAY...THIS TIME FOR REAL...NO UPPER LOW OVER NORTHERN MEXICO TO HOLD IT UP. GOING FOR SHOWERS ALONG AND JUST BEHIND THE FRONT BASED ON LATEST GFS SOLUTION. PRELIM NUMBERS... AUS TT 070/082 065/080 059 11+75 DRT TB 069/085 065/085 060 11853 SAT TB 071/083 066/082 060 11864 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WEST AND CNTRL PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH 6 AM CDT...WEDNESDAY. 11/02/KW
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 8, 5:00 AM CST, 11 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT...FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF... ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL... COMAL...DIMMIT...EDWARDS...FRIO...GILLESPIE...GUADALUPE...HAYS... KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL... TRAVIS...UVALDE...VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON AND ZAVALA. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MEXICO CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND INTERACTS WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER TEXAS. RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH TODAY COULD APPROACH 4 TO 8 INCHES. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WELL INTO WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED. CLEARING SKIES WITH RAIN ENDING BY THURSDAY...FOLLOWED BY PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES INTO THE WEEKEND.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 10 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Comal
- When
- October 8, 4:30 PM CST to 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Comal County, Gruene
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 29.733, -98.100
Severe thunderstorm winds produced very heavy rain, followed by damaging winds that blew down large Trees in the Oak Run subdivision in Gruene.
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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, October 8, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, October 8 to 9, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, October 8, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, October 8, 2002
- Tornado in Texas, October 8, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, October 8, 2002
- Storm Surge and Heavy Snow in Alaska, October 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail in Texas, October 8, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, October 8, 2002
- Flood in Texas, October 8 to 9, 2002
- Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, October 8, 2002
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, October 8, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 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: 5319150, 5319151.