News Story: Storms Bring Good and Bad - May 2013

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
Apr 2015
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The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - May 17, 2013

Storms Bring Good and Bad!

Monday, May 6, 2013, began a week of rain and severe weather in Coke 
County. Small amounts of rain fell on Monday afternoon in spotty showers 
around the county. The first of the severe storms arrived Thursday 
afternoon dumping rain and small hail - pea to marble size - in both 
Bronte and Robert Lee with golf ball size hail reported on Highway 158 
between the two towns. This storm went on southeast hammering Ballinger 
and other areas with much larger hail.
 
Friday afternoon saw a storm hit west of Robert Lee near Pecan Creek. 
As it moved southeast, it dumped heavy rain and hail between Highway 158 
and Highway 208. It then meandered along FM 2662 before heading toward 
Tennyson and moving out of the county. A car carrying two teenage young 
men was washed into the creek on Green Mountain Road. Robert Lee Volunteer 
Fire Department and the Coke County Sheriff's Office responded to the 
emergency and no injuries were reported.

Reports came of two feet of hail on Green Mountain. Melting hail along 
FM 2662 caused a fog late into the evening.
 
Normally a dry creek bed, Live Oak Creek) where it crosses FM 2662 was 
rolling Friday evening, taking the new high fence with it.
 
Jack Myles Creek (above right) on Highway 208 was just under the bridge. 
It appears that all parts of Coke County received some rain last week, 
with some areas receiving two inches and more.

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