Hail in Austin on Friday, June 16, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Austin on Friday, June 16, 2023, between 9:15 pm and 10:14 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 2 SSW Cedar Park (Williamson County) at 9:39 pm. NOAA radar flagged 61 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 38 rated a 100% chance of hail and 33 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Travis and Williamson counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Liberty Hill 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Austin 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Cedar Park 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Jollyville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Leander 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- West Lake Hills 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:15 pm | 1.50 | 5 WNW Leander | Travis | *delayed report* hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter was reported to have fallen between 915-920 pm. (EWX) |
| 9:15 pm | 1.25 | 6 SW Liberty Hill | Travis | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EWX) |
| 9:17 pm | 1.25 | 3 S Liberty Hill | Williamson | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EWX) |
| 9:39 pm | 1.75 | 2 SSW Cedar Park | Williamson | Spotter reports golf ball sized hail. (EWX) |
| 9:49 pm | 1.00 | 3 SSW Jollyville | Travis | *delayed report* 1/4 to 1 inch diameter hail observed from 949pm until 1004pm... although most hailstones were 1/4 to 3/4 inch. Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 40 (EWX) |
| 10:05 pm | 1.25 | 5 NE West Lake Hills | Travis | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EWX) |
| 10:14 pm | 1.50 | 5 NNE Austin | Travis | Spotter reports ping pong ball sized hail. (EWX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
61 signatures from 5 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; 38 were rated 100% and 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEWX | 31 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 2.75 in | 8:04 pm | 10:44 pm |
| KGRK | 20 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 2.50 in | 8:52 pm | 10:37 pm |
| KFWS | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3.00 in | 8:07 pm | 9:50 pm |
| KDYX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:58 pm | 7:58 pm |
| KHGX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 10:41 pm | 10:41 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 Austin when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 5 counties (Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell 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.