TEXAS — Many Texans woke up Friday morning to damage from Thursday night’s storms that stretched from North Texas all the way down to the Hill Country. 

What You Need To Know

  • The San Marcos and Wimberley areas saw massive hail and downed power lines resulting in scattered power outages. San Marcos ISD was on a two-hour delay on Friday morning

  • According to the Texas Division of Emergency Management, seven people were hospitalized in Delta County northeast of Dallas with non-life- threatening injuries

  • The largest recorded hailstone from Thursday night’s storm was 6.25 inches in Johnson City (melon size), located west of Austin. It’s nearly record-breaking, with the largest hailstone on record in Texas being 6.40 inches in Hondo on April 28, 2021

  • As the damage is assessed on Friday morning, roads will continue to be cleared

Central Texas

The San Marcos and Wimberley areas saw massive hail and downed power lines resulting in scattered power outages. San Marcos ISD was on a two-hour delay on Friday morning.

York Creek in Guadalupe County, located south of Austin, reported three collapsed buildings, torn-off roofs, damage to homes and at least one person injured by flying debris.

North Texas

The storm stretched all the way up to North Texas in Denton County, where there were reports of hail and damaging winds.

According to the Texas Division of Emergency Management, seven people were hospitalized in Delta County northeast of Dallas with non-life-threatening injuries.

Across the state

The National Weather Service issued several tornado watches and warnings leading up to the storms. As the damage is assessed on Friday morning, roads will continue to be cleared.

Massive hail

Across the state, 151 weather reports were recorded. The majority, 131, were hail reports.

The largest recorded hailstone from Thursday night’s storm was 6.25 inches in Johnson City (melon size), located west of Austin. It’s nearly record-breaking, with the largest hailstone on record in Texas being 6.40 inches in Hondo on April 28, 2021. In Texas, it’s rare to see hail over 4 inches in size.

To put it in perspective, the National Weather Service scale for hail size doesn’t go beyond five inches. Everything is bigger in Texas, after all.

Other hail reports from across the state in the past 24 hours include 4.50 inch hail in Itasca and Granbury (grapefruit size), 4.20 inches in Henly (slightly larger than a softball), 3 inches in Katemcy and Cleburne (large apple size) and 2.75 inches in Brady (baseball size).