Hail in Atlanta on Sunday, March 26, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 10 hail reports in Atlanta on Sunday, March 26, 2023, between 6:16 am and 10:09 pm EDT, in 3 of the metro's 12 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 NW Atlanta (Fulton County) at 9:45 pm. NOAA radar flagged 608 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 106 rated a 100% chance of hail and 115 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 10 places in Fulton, Gwinnett and Henry counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Atlanta 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Cascade Heights 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- East Point 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Fairburn 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Grant Park-zoo Atlanta 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lakewood Park 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Locust Grove 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Midtown 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Norcross 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- West End 1 report, up to 1.75 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Eastern 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:16 am | 1.50 | Locust Grove | Henry | REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (FFC) |
| 9:10 am | 1.50 | 3 WNW Fairburn | Fulton | MULTIPLE REPORTS OF PING PONG SIZED HAIL ACROSS FAIRBURN. (FFC) |
| 9:28 pm | 1.75 | 2 NW Lakewood Park | Fulton | 1.75 HAIL REPORTED AT DILL AVE SW AND SYLVAN RD SW. (FFC) |
| 9:35 pm | 1.75 | 1 E Cascade Heights | Fulton | 1.75 HAIL AT LOCKHAVEN CIR SW AND WICHITA DR SW. (FFC) |
| 9:37 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSW East Point | Fulton | 1.75 HAIL REPORTED AT E POINT ST AND VESTA AVE. (FFC) |
| 9:40 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSW West End | Fulton | 1.75 HAIL REPORTED AT LEE AND WHITE COMPLEX. (FFC) |
| 9:40 pm | 1.00 | Grant Park-Zoo Atlanta | Fulton | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED AT GRANT PARK. (FFC) |
| 9:45 pm | 1.75 | 1 NW Atlanta | Fulton | 1.75 HAIL NEAR MERCEDES BENZ STADIUM. (FFC) |
| 9:45 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW Midtown | Fulton | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED AT GA TECH. (FFC) |
| 10:09 pm | 1.50 | 2 S Norcross | Gwinnett | PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF I-85 AND JIMMY CARTER BLVD JUST OF NORCROSS. (FFC) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
608 signatures from 7 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 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KATL | 308 | 31 | 44 | 1 | 2.00 in | 5:36 am | 11:59 pm |
| KJGX | 99 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 2.75 in | 5:42 am | 11:56 pm |
| KFFC | 73 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 3.50 in | 5:39 am | 11:56 pm |
| KHTX | 60 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 2.50 in | 5:54 am | 11:50 pm |
| KBMX | 37 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2.25 in | 5:41 am | 11:45 pm |
| KGSP | 26 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 1.25 in | 1:02 pm | 10:27 pm |
| KEOX | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 5:41 am | 11:15 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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