Texas does not expect to make any changes to its college baseball Regional this weekend after a wicked storm rolled through Austin on Wednesday night. It destroyed the batter’s eye at Disch-Falk Field but the Longhorns are confident in their ability to make repairs prior to first pitch.
A wild timelapse shows the storm roll through the city and brought huge winds and golf ball-sized hail with it!
Texas, which finished the college baseball regular season at 42-12, earned the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and the right to host the first and second rounds— if it should make it that far. Houston Christian, UTSA and Kansas State will play in the Austin Regional as the No. 4, No. 3 and No. 2 seeds. The two opening games are scheduled for 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. CT on Friday. They will play throughout the weekend from there depending on results.
There is a lot of work to be done at Disch-Falk Field on Thursday to repair damage from the storm.
Texas expects the work to get done but there is a lot of it.
The reparation process got underway as soon as possible.
Texas got hammered by a hailer.
More than 72,500 Austin Energy customers experienced outages during the storm. It lasted approximately 30 minutes in total.
It came, did its damage, and left in a hurry.
The supercell brought wind gusts up to 90 mph to Austin.
It even blew out windows at the Austin Airport.
The hail was massive.
The entire ground was covered in ice.
Here is how it looked as it rolled through the city:
And the view from downtown Austin. Around the 5-6 second mark on this time-lapse, you can see microbursts crashing to the surface before rushing into the city center pic.twitter.com/OpC2bItReC
— Avery Tomasco (@averytomascowx) May 29, 2025
Satellite imagery really helps to put the size of the storm into perspective.
Incredible hi-res satellite loop of the deadly supercell that crashed into Central Texas yesterday evening.
— Avery Tomasco (@averytomascowx) May 29, 2025
Hail up to 2" diameter locally… Microburst winds 70-90 MPH in Austin… Rainfall rate over 10" per hour with one flood-related fatality. Terrible storm #atxwx #txwx pic.twitter.com/J3JNyOFuB6
Needless to say, the weather was no joke!
I admittedly have my doubts about the batter’s eye repairs and the amount of time to get it done but Texas has enough money to make it happen. The Longhorns expect to play their college baseball Regional as scheduled. I think the backup plan would normally be Round Rock, but the AAA affiliate for the Texas Rangers are at home this weekend so that is not possible. San Antonio might host after all. We’ll see. I would guess that a final call will need to be made by Thursday evening.