Hail in Austin on Thursday, May 30, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 6 hail reports in Austin on Thursday, May 30, 2024, between 5:48 pm and 7:12 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 4.00 inches at 1 E Coupland (Williamson County) at 7:05 pm. NOAA radar flagged 174 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 71 rated a 100% chance of hail and 78 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Williamson County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Coupland 3 reports, up to 4.00 in
- Hutto 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Taylor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:48 pm | 2.00 | 1 S Hutto | Williamson | Picture of near hen egg sized hail shared on social media. (EWX) |
| 5:48 pm | 1.75 | 1 E Hutto | Williamson | Picture of what looks to be golfball sized hail on the east side of Hutto shared on social media. Time estimated by radar. (EWX) |
| 6:48 pm | 3.00 | Coupland | Williamson | Picture of large hail stone on social media estimated between 3 and 3.5 inches. Time estimated from radar. (EWX) |
| 6:49 pm | 1.00 | 5 SE Taylor | Williamson | Reports of 0.5 inch to 1 inch hail near CR448/FM619. (EWX) |
| 7:05 pm | 4.00 | 1 E Coupland | Williamson | EM shared report from social media of a 4 inch hailstone next to a ruler. Occurred off of CR 460... time estimated from radar. (EWX) |
| 7:12 pm | 2.75 | 5 ENE Coupland | Williamson | Picture of several hailstone to between the size of quarters and baseballs with a golf ball shown as a reference. Time estimated by radar. (EWX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
174 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; 71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEWX | 82 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 3.00 in | 4:33 pm | 7:13 pm |
| KFWS | 52 | 25 | 22 | 2 | 2.00 in | 4:43 pm | 6:49 pm |
| KGRK | 40 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 3.00 in | 4:38 pm | 7:12 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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