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What happened in Texas on April 13, 2018: hail, wind and tornadoes on record

The public federal storm record holds 308 hail reports, 168 wind reports and 9 tornado reports for April 13, 2018 filed under Texas. The largest hail measured by a person or an instrument is 2.00″, BOSQUE, TX. The strongest measured wind is 111 mph, JEFFERSON, TX. The day's hail was carried by 3 independent sources.

485

Reports on record, hail, wind and tornado

308

Hail reports, all sources

2.00in

Largest hail measured on the ground

3

Independent sources carrying the hail

Where it fell

The counties the day's reports were filed under in Texas, busiest first, as the source filed them. The size beside each is the largest hail filed there.

  1. MCLENNAN 2.00″
    • 28 hail
  2. COLLIN 1.75″
    • 26 hail
  3. GRAYSON 1.75″
    • 25 hail
  4. DENTON 1.00″
    • 22 hail
  5. BOSQUE 2.00″
    • 14 hail
  6. TARRANT 1.00″
    • 12 hail
    • 2 wind
  7. EL PASO Not sized
    • 13 wind
  8. GREGG 1.00″
    • 2 hail
    • 8 wind
    • 2 tornado
  9. HILL 2.00″
    • 12 hail
  10. FANNIN 1.75″
    • 10 hail
  11. NAVARRO 1.00″
    • 8 hail
    • 2 wind
  12. NUECES Not sized
    • 10 wind

Places in the footprint

Every place in Texas with a hail report of the day within 10 miles of its centre, by reports. Each links to the place's own hail history; the busiest 40 are listed.

  1. McKinney 36 reports 1.75″
  2. Allen 30 reports 1.75″
  3. Bellmead 30 reports 2.00″
  4. Lacy-Lakeview 30 reports 2.00″
  5. Denton 27 reports 1.00″
  6. Waco 27 reports 2.00″
  7. Corinth 27 reports 1.00″
  8. Lake Dallas 27 reports 1.00″
  9. Melissa 24 reports 1.75″
  10. Fairview 24 reports 1.75″
  11. Argyle 24 reports 1.00″
  12. Little Elm 21 reports 1.00″
28 more places in the footprint
  1. Sherman 21 reports 1.25″
  2. Princeton 21 reports 1.75″
  3. Frisco 18 reports 1.00″
  4. Prosper 18 reports 1.00″
  5. Anna 18 reports 1.25″
  6. Highland Village 18 reports 0.88″
  7. Lucas 18 reports 1.75″
  8. Krum 18 reports 1.00″
  9. Oak Point 18 reports 0.88″
  10. Hickory Creek 18 reports 0.88″
  11. Van Alstyne 16 reports 1.75″
  12. Denison 15 reports 1.00″
  13. Providence Village 15 reports 1.00″
  14. Lewisville 12 reports 0.88″
  15. Celina 12 reports 1.00″
  16. Cleburne 12 reports 1.75″
  17. Bonham 12 reports 1.75″
  18. Joshua 12 reports 1.75″
  19. Schertz 10 reports 1.00″
  20. Cibolo 10 reports 1.00″
  21. Converse 10 reports 1.00″
  22. Universal City 10 reports 1.00″
  23. Live Oak 10 reports 1.00″
  24. Selma 10 reports 1.00″
  25. Windcrest 10 reports 1.00″
  26. Plano 9 reports 1.00″
  27. Flower Mound 9 reports 0.88″
  28. The Colony 9 reports 1.00″

By kind of evidence

A day carried by a ground observation, a radar detection and a warning is attested three independent ways. A day carried by one kind from one source is one report. Each report below keeps its own source.

By kind of evidence: the kinds of evidence on record for the day, the number of independent sources of each, and the reports each contributed.
Evidence Sources Reports
Ground observation ×3 485

Largest hail reports on the day

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail reports on the day: time, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Time (UTC) Size Evidence County
00:25 2.00″ Ground observation Not stated
00:20 2.00″ Ground observation BOSQUE
01:00 2.00″ Ground observation MCLENNAN
00:20 2.00″ Ground observation Not stated
00:20 2.00″ Ground observation BOSQUE
01:00 2.00″ Ground observation Not stated
00:25 2.00″ Ground observation HILL
00:25 2.00″ Ground observation HILL

Neighbouring days

The nearest days either side with anything on record in Texas, the same date in other years, and the hail history the day belongs to.

Previous day with records
April 12, 2018
Next day with records
April 14, 2018
This day in other years
Hail history and data
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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed on April 13, 2018 under Texas, with wind and tornado reports counted beside it and the places ranked by the hail reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Reports are counted as the sources filed them, so a storm four sources describe is four reports on this page and one afternoon of hail on a place page. This page is the record for a day; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 25 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.

Settled or provisional
Settled. The last national segment covering this day settled on August 24, 2026, and the figures above are drawn from the settled record.