Hail in Charlotte on Friday, May 6, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Charlotte on Friday, May 6, 2022, between 5:50 pm and 6:40 pm EDT, in 5 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Crouse (Lincoln, NC) at 5:55 pm. NOAA radar flagged 885 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 103 rated a 100% chance of hail and 122 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 8 places in Gaston, NC, Lancaster, SC, Lincoln, NC, Union, NC and York, SC, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Crouse 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Crowders 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Forty Acre Rock 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lincolnton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- McConnells 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Rock Hill 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Tradesville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Vale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:50 pm | 1.75 | 2 NE McConnells | York, SC | (GSP) |
| 5:50 pm | 1.75 | 4 SE Vale | Lincoln, NC | (GSP) |
| 5:55 pm | 1.75 | Crouse | Lincoln, NC | (GSP) |
| 5:55 pm | 1.00 | 4 WNW Lincolnton | Lincoln, NC | (GSP) |
| 5:56 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Crowders | Gaston, NC | (GSP) |
| 6:02 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Forty Acre Rock | Lancaster, SC | REPORT OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL NORTHEAST OF KERSHAW... SC AT HIGHWAY 903 AND 601. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (CAE) |
| 6:15 pm | 1.00 | 3 S Rock Hill | York, SC | (GSP) |
| 6:40 pm | 1.00 | 3 NNE Tradesville | Union, NC | REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF LANDSFORD ROAD AND SC HWY. 207. (CAE) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
885 signatures from 8 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; 103 were rated 100% and 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KCLT | 263 | 33 | 48 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:13 pm | 10:10 pm |
| KCAE | 201 | 21 | 24 | 4 | 2.25 in | 5:30 am | 9:54 pm |
| KGSP | 194 | 18 | 22 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:54 pm | 10:11 pm |
| KRAX | 89 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 6:12 am | 9:52 pm |
| KFCX | 78 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2.00 in | 1:54 pm | 9:13 pm |
| KLTX | 30 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:56 pm | 7:08 pm |
| KMRX | 20 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1.75 in | 1:55 pm | 7:52 pm |
| KCLX | 10 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1.50 in | 5:32 pm | 6:31 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 (Eastern Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Charlotte when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 9 counties (the counties of Mecklenburg, NC, Cabarrus, NC, Gaston, NC, Union, NC, Iredell, NC, Lincoln, NC, Rowan, NC, York, SC and Lancaster, SC). 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.