Hail in Amarillo on Sunday, May 1, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 12 hail reports in Amarillo on Sunday, May 1, 2022, between 6:40 pm and 7:30 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at 8 WNW Amarillo (Potter County) at 7:26 pm. NOAA radar flagged 529 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 106 rated a 100% chance of hail and 88 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 2 places in Potter and Randall counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Amarillo 7 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Bushland 5 reports, up to 2.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:40 pm | 1.75 | Bushland | Potter | (AMA) |
| 7:17 pm | 1.00 | 7 ESE Bushland | Randall | REPORT FROM SOUTHWEST AMARILLO IN HILLSIDE TERRACE. (AMA) |
| 7:20 pm | 1.75 | 3 E Bushland | Randall | SMALL TREE LIMBS AROUND 1 TO 2 INCHES DOWNED. (AMA) |
| 7:20 pm | 2.50 | 2 NNW Bushland | Potter | (AMA) |
| 7:23 pm | 1.75 | 5 W Amarillo | Potter | REPORT FROM MPING: GOLF BALL (1.75 IN.). (AMA) |
| 7:25 pm | 1.50 | 5 W Amarillo | Potter | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (AMA) |
| 7:25 pm | 1.00 | 6 WNW Amarillo | Potter | (AMA) |
| 7:26 pm | 2.75 | 8 WNW Amarillo | Potter | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 6 N AMARILLO. PCFD BISHOP HILLS. (AMA) |
| 7:27 pm | 1.75 | 8 WNW Amarillo | Potter | (AMA) |
| 7:28 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Bushland | Potter | TRACTOR TRAILER BLOWN OVER (I-40 & ARNOT RD). (AMA) |
| 7:30 pm | 1.00 | 6 NW Amarillo | Potter | (AMA) |
| 7:30 pm | 1.50 | 7 NNW Amarillo | Potter | (AMA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
529 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; 106 were rated 100% and 23 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 | 191 | 45 | 31 | 6 | 2.75 in | 11:53 am | 11:49 pm |
| KAMA | 180 | 23 | 29 | 9 | 2.75 in | 11:55 am | 11:42 pm |
| KFDX | 144 | 35 | 26 | 8 | 2.50 in | 6:19 pm | 11:19 pm |
| KFDR | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:57 pm | 11:46 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 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.