Hail in Amarillo on Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Amarillo on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, between 5:16 pm and 8:14 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.50 inches at 5 N Panhandle (Carson County) at 7:39 pm. NOAA radar flagged 415 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 182 rated a 100% chance of hail and 132 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Carson and Potter counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Panhandle 6 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Skellytown 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Washburn 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- White Deer 1 report, up to 1.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:16 pm | 1.25 | 4 NW Washburn | Potter | MOSTLY HALF INCH TO QUARTER... A FEW HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. (AMA) |
| 6:14 pm | 1.00 | 3 WSW Panhandle | Carson | (AMA) |
| 6:29 pm | 1.50 | Panhandle | Carson | (AMA) |
| 6:40 pm | 2.00 | 1 N Panhandle | Carson | TWITTER REPORT WITH PICTURE OF MEASURED 2 INCH HAIL. (AMA) |
| 6:49 pm | 2.50 | 4 SW Panhandle | Carson | PICTURE RECEIVED VIA TWITTER. (AMA) |
| 6:53 pm | 2.50 | Panhandle | Carson | PICTURE RECEIVED VIA TWITTER. (AMA) |
| 7:39 pm | 2.50 | 5 N Panhandle | Carson | (AMA) |
| 8:11 pm | 1.00 | 4 NE White Deer | Carson | (AMA) |
| 8:14 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Skellytown | Carson | (AMA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
415 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; 182 were rated 100% and 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLBB | 164 | 78 | 56 | 13 | 3.50 in | 12:02 am | 11:34 pm |
| KAMA | 121 | 45 | 38 | 10 | 3.25 in | 12:02 am | 11:30 pm |
| KFDX | 98 | 51 | 33 | 4 | 2.25 in | 12:00 am | 11:23 pm |
| KFDR | 32 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1.00 in | 12:02 am | 11:42 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.