Hail in Amarillo on Monday, May 17, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 10 hail reports in Amarillo on Monday, May 17, 2021, between 7:22 pm and 8:00 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at Palo Duro Canyon (Randall County) at 7:25 pm. NOAA radar flagged 707 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 323 rated a 100% chance of hail and 230 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Oldham, Potter and Randall counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Amarillo 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Boys Ranch 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Palo Duro Canyon 2 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Wildorado 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Canyon 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Lake Tanglewood 1 report, up to 2.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:22 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Wildorado | Oldham | (AMA) |
| 7:25 pm | 1.25 | 12 SSE Canyon | Randall | (AMA) |
| 7:25 pm | 2.75 | Palo Duro Canyon | Randall | HAIL DAMAGED SOME VEHICLES AND CAMPERS MAINLY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PARK. SOME HIKERS REPORTEDLY HAD SOME MINOR BUMPS AND BRUISES FROM THE HAIL. (AMA) |
| 7:26 pm | 1.50 | Boys Ranch | Oldham | (AMA) |
| 7:29 pm | 1.25 | 1 ESE Palo Duro Canyon | Randall | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (AMA) |
| 7:29 pm | 1.75 | 2 E Wildorado | Oldham | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED EAST OF WILDORADO ON I-40. (AMA) |
| 7:36 pm | 1.75 | Boys Ranch | Oldham | (AMA) |
| 7:47 pm | 2.00 | 6 E Lake Tanglewood | Randall | (AMA) |
| 7:54 pm | 1.25 | 6 E Amarillo | Potter | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (AMA) |
| 8:00 pm | 1.25 | 6 E Amarillo | Potter | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (AMA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
707 signatures from 4 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; 323 were rated 100% and 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAMA | 280 | 102 | 80 | 15 | 4.00 in | 12:03 am | 9:16 pm |
| KLBB | 216 | 127 | 84 | 21 | 3.50 in | 12:00 am | 9:23 pm |
| KFDX | 195 | 90 | 63 | 10 | 3.00 in | 12:04 am | 9:19 pm |
| KFDR | 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:52 pm | 9:19 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 Amarillo when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 5 counties (Potter, Randall, Carson, Armstrong and Oldham 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.