1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Apr 18, 1:22 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 222 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 .DISCUSSION... RECORD HEAT AND THE DRY LINE MAY HAVE THE SIDE EFFECT OF SOME BRIEF BORDERLINE SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. LIFTED INDICES OF -6 RUNNING FROM DRT TO BURNET AND CAPE FROM 1500-2000 IN THE HILL COUNTRY AHEAD OF THE SLOWLY ADVANCING DRYLINE. CONVECTIVE INHIBITION IS STILL FAIRLY STRONG...BUT TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S ARE GETTING CLOSE TO BREAKING THE CAP. TCU NOTED ON LATEST VIS IMAGERY ALONG THE DRYLINE FROM JCT TO MASON. RIGHT NOW FEEL THAT CAP IS A BIT TOO STRONG FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF CELLS...BUT A FEW SHOULD BE ABLE TO POP THROUGH AND BRIEFLY GO SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. FRONT/DRYLINE PUSHES FURTHER INTO TEXAS ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE RETREATING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AS IT RETREATS...A VORT MAX SWEEPS THROUGH OVERHEAD. THIS WILL ADD LIFT AND SPARK SOME SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING IN VORTS DURING THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...BRINGING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE NOT YET GONE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH POPS AFTER THURSDAY ATTM UNTIL WE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY BREAK THIS DRY PATTERN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 65 89 66 86 / 10 10 40 30 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 65 89 66 87 / 10 10 40 30 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 69 93 70 87 / 10 10 40 30 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 65 90 68 83 / 10 10 40 30 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && STRAUB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1206 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191100- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DE WITT- DIMMIT-EDWARDS-FAYETTE-FRIO-GILLESPIE-GONZALES-GUADALUPE-HAYS-KARNES- KENDALL-KERR-KINNEY-LAVACA-LEE-LLANO-MAVERICK-MEDINA-REAL-TRAVIS- UVALDE-VAL VERDE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-ZAVALA- 1206 PM CDT TUE APR 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:57 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail as large as baseballs broke windows in homes and windshields in cars between Harper and Doss. The hail also destroyed vegetable gardens and damaged up to 70 percent of the area peach crop.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5496630.