Thunderstorm Wind — Rains, Texas

2022-04-12 · near Emory, Rains, Texas

Event narrative

A few roof wall panels were blown off the Rains High School gymnasium.

Wider weather episode

Thunderstorms developed along a dryline across the Big Country the afternoon of Tuesday April 12, then spread east across North and Central Texas, producing all modes of severe weather. Extremely large hail occurred over parts of our Central Texas counties, where a record-breaking hailstone over 5.6 inches in length was documented in the Salado area of Bell County. This hailstone is now the largest recorded hailstone in our CWA to date. Two tornadoes also occurred across Central Texas in Bell County. An EF-3 tornado started in Williamson County and moved northeast and then northerly across the Salado area. Twenty-three people were injured but no fatalities occurred. Additional storms developed overnight into Wednesday as a cold front pushed through the area, some of which also became severe.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1023429. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.