Hail in Abilene on Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 12 hail reports in Abilene on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, between 3:55 pm and 5:00 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 3 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at Anson (Jones County) at 4:32 pm. NOAA radar flagged 154 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 105 rated a 100% chance of hail and 106 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Jones and Taylor counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Potosi 6 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Anson 3 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Buffalo Gap 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Trent 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- View 1 report, up to 1.75 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:55 pm | 1.00 | 1 ENE Trent | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 4:30 pm | 1.75 | 9 SW View | Taylor | REPORT FROM TWITTER WITH PHOTO OF THE HAIL... ESTMATED TO BE GOLFBALL SIZE. THE HAIL PHOTO IS FROM CORONADOS CAMP. (SJT) |
| 4:31 pm | 1.75 | Anson | Jones | REPORT FROM FACEBOOK ALONG WITH PHOTO. (SJT) |
| 4:32 pm | 2.75 | Anson | Jones | (SJT) |
| 4:35 pm | 1.50 | Anson | Jones | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (SJT) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.00 | 4 WSW Potosi | Taylor | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (SJT) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.50 | 4 WNW Potosi | Taylor | REPORT FROM FACEBOOK. (SJT) |
| 4:52 pm | 1.00 | 6 NNE Buffalo Gap | Taylor | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (SJT) |
| 4:53 pm | 1.00 | 4 WSW Potosi | Taylor | FROM TWITTER. INTERSECTION OF CLARK AND COUNTY ROAD 83/84. TIME ESTIMATED ON RADAR. (SJT) |
| 4:58 pm | 1.00 | 4 WSW Potosi | Taylor | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (SJT) |
| 4:59 pm | 1.50 | 4 WSW Potosi | Taylor | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (SJT) |
| 5:00 pm | 1.25 | 4 NW Potosi | Taylor | REPORT FROM TWITTER WITH PHOTO OF HAIL SIZE. (SJT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
154 signatures from 6 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 105 were rated 100% and 47 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDYX | 38 | 28 | 28 | 14 | 4.00 in | 3:55 pm | 5:56 pm |
| KSJT | 33 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 3.75 in | 3:55 pm | 6:35 pm |
| KLBB | 22 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 4.00 in | 3:54 pm | 4:54 pm |
| KFDR | 22 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2.75 in | 4:01 pm | 6:45 pm |
| KFWS | 22 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1.50 in | 4:45 pm | 6:47 pm |
| KMAF | 17 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 3.50 in | 3:53 pm | 4:46 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Abilene when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 3 counties (Taylor, Jones and Callahan counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.