Hail in Abilene on Tuesday, March 10, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Abilene on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, between 4:42 pm and 5:43 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 3 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at Buffalo Gap (Taylor County) at 4:55 pm. NOAA radar flagged 18 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 9 rated a 100% chance of hail and 2 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Callahan and Taylor counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Buffalo Gap 4 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Baird 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Abilene 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Potosi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:42 pm | 1.50 | Buffalo Gap | Taylor | Social Media report of Ping Pong size hail over Buffalo Gap. (SJT) |
| 4:44 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Buffalo Gap | Taylor | 1 inch hail reported with around 50 mph winds by trained spotter out of Buffalo Gap. (SJT) |
| 4:54 pm | 1.75 | 1 S Buffalo Gap | Taylor | Golf Ball size hail reported. (SJT) |
| 4:55 pm | 2.75 | Buffalo Gap | Taylor | Media reported baseball size hail over Buffalo Gap. (SJT) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.25 | Potosi | Taylor | Half dollar size hail reported via social media over Potosi. (SJT) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.00 | 2 NNE Abilene | Taylor | 1 inch hail reported via social media with images. (SJT) |
| 5:28 pm | 1.00 | Baird | Callahan | quarter size hail. (SJT) |
| 5:43 pm | 1.25 | Baird | Callahan | (SJT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
18 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; 9 were rated 100% and 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFWS | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 in | 7:00 pm | 7:32 pm |
| KSJT | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:00 pm | 7:10 pm |
| KDYX | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:05 pm | 7:17 pm |
| KFDR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:03 pm | 7:03 pm |
| KGRK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:33 pm | 7:33 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.