Hail in Abilene on Sunday, June 11, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Abilene on Sunday, June 11, 2023, between 5:28 pm and 8:02 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 3 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Hawley (Jones County) at 7:13 pm. NOAA radar flagged 300 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 194 rated a 100% chance of hail and 164 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Jones and Taylor counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Hawley 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Buffalo Gap 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Potosi 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Abilene 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Merkel 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Stith 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- View 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:28 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Potosi | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 5:44 pm | 1.25 | 6 E View | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.75 | 5 NNE Buffalo Gap | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.50 | Abilene | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 6:01 pm | 1.50 | 1 ESE Potosi | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 6:45 pm | 1.50 | 6 NNE Buffalo Gap | Taylor | A picture of ping pong ball sized hail was posted on Facebook. (SJT) |
| 6:45 pm | 1.75 | 2 SW Stith | Taylor | (SJT) |
| 6:53 pm | 1.25 | 4.5 NNE Merkel | Jones | Report from the intersection of County Road 416 and Wimberly Road. (SJT) |
| 7:13 pm | 1.75 | Hawley | Jones | (SJT) |
| 7:42 pm | 1.00 | Hawley | Jones | Corrects the time of the previous hail report from Hawley. Ham radio operator received a report of 1 hail in Hawley. (SJT) |
| 8:02 pm | 1.00 | Hawley | Jones | Ham radio operator received a report of 1" hail in Hawley. (SJT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
300 signatures from 5 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; 194 were rated 100% and 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KSJT | 92 | 60 | 52 | 7 | 4.00 in | 3:48 pm | 8:23 pm |
| KDYX | 69 | 34 | 41 | 11 | 4.00 in | 3:55 pm | 8:26 pm |
| KFDR | 59 | 45 | 36 | 5 | 4.00 in | 3:44 am | 8:24 pm |
| KFWS | 47 | 32 | 23 | 3 | 2.25 in | 5:08 pm | 8:24 pm |
| KMAF | 33 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 1.50 in | 3:52 pm | 7:01 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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