Hail in Amarillo on Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 6 hail reports in Amarillo on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, between 5:32 pm and 6:13 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at 4 S Claude (Armstrong County) at 6:06 pm. NOAA radar flagged 160 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 108 rated a 100% chance of hail and 71 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Armstrong and Carson counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Claude 3 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Goodnight 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Panhandle 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:32 pm | 1.50 | 8 S Panhandle | Carson | Chaser report of Ping Pong Ball sized hail north of Conway... TX. (AMA) |
| 5:46 pm | 1.25 | 7 N Claude | Carson | Half dollar sized hail reported by trained spotter. (AMA) |
| 5:58 pm | 1.50 | 6 N Goodnight | Armstrong | Sporadic ping pong sized hail 3 mi N of report location about 8 minutes ago. (AMA) |
| 5:58 pm | 1.50 | 9 N Goodnight | Armstrong | Corrects previous report: Sporadic ping pong sized hail 3 mi N of report location about 8 minutes ago. (AMA) |
| 6:06 pm | 2.75 | 4 S Claude | Armstrong | Baseball sized hail reported 4 miles south of Claude along Highway 207. (AMA) |
| 6:13 pm | 2.00 | Claude | Armstrong | 2 inch hail in Claude. Report received via social media. (AMA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
160 signatures from 3 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; 108 were rated 100% and 18 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 | 67 | 46 | 28 | 7 | 2.75 in | 4:35 pm | 7:56 pm |
| KLBB | 63 | 42 | 27 | 8 | 2.50 in | 9:04 am | 8:03 pm |
| KFDR | 30 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 2.25 in | 5:50 pm | 7:48 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.