Hail in Birmingham on Sunday, June 25, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Birmingham on Sunday, June 25, 2023, between 2:28 pm and 6:36 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 1 SE Carbon Hill (Walker County) at 2:28 pm. NOAA radar flagged 450 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 102 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 3 places in St. Clair and Walker counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Carbon Hill 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Coosa Island 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Country Club Estat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:28 pm | 2.00 | 1 SE Carbon Hill | Walker | Photos show multiple hailstones of 1.75 inch to 2 inches in diameter. (BMX) |
| 2:28 pm | 2.00 | 1 ESE Carbon Hill | Walker | Additional reports of large hail to about 2 inches in diameter. (BMX) |
| 6:27 pm | 1.00 | 1 ESE Coosa Island | St. Clair | Two mPING reports on this peninsula of quarter size hail. (BMX) |
| 6:27 pm | 1.00 | 2 NW Country Club Estat | St. Clair | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (BMX) |
| 6:36 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Coosa Island | St. Clair | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (BMX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
450 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; 102 were rated 100% and 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHTX | 144 | 28 | 21 | 1 | 2.75 in | 12:11 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KGWX | 128 | 40 | 31 | 2 | 2.25 in | 12:08 pm | 11:59 pm |
| KBMX | 113 | 19 | 28 | 3 | 2.50 in | 12:39 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KFFC | 63 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2.50 in | 2:52 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KOHX | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.00 in | 4:09 pm | 4:25 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 Birmingham when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 5 counties (Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Blount and Walker 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.