Hail in Charlotte on Friday, May 10, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Charlotte on Friday, May 10, 2024, between 3:32 pm and 3:55 pm EDT, in 1 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at 3 NW Kershaw (Lancaster, SC) at 3:47 pm. NOAA radar flagged 668 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 104 rated a 100% chance of hail and 177 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 2 places in Lancaster, SC, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Kershaw 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Springdale 2 reports, up to 1.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:32 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Springdale | Lancaster, SC | Public report of dime and quarter sized hail near Lancaster golf course. Time estimated. (CAE) |
| 3:32 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Springdale | Lancaster, SC | Public report with photos of quarter sized hail just south of Lancaster. Time estimated. (CAE) |
| 3:47 pm | 1.50 | 3 NW Kershaw | Lancaster, SC | Corrects previous tstm wnd dmg report from 3 NW Kershaw. Public report with video of ping pong ball sized hail at Andrew Jackson High School northwest of Kershaw. Time (CAE) |
| 3:51 pm | 1.00 | 2 N Kershaw | Lancaster, SC | Public report of quarter sized hail with photos on the north side of Kershaw. (CAE) |
| 3:55 pm | 1.00 | 3 NE Kershaw | Lancaster, SC | Public report and video of quarter sized at the gold mine in Kershaw. (CAE) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
668 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; 104 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KCLT | 266 | 44 | 89 | 16 | 2.25 in | 12:48 pm | 6:42 pm |
| KCAE | 141 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:47 pm | 6:42 pm |
| KGSP | 136 | 22 | 30 | 5 | 2.50 in | 12:49 pm | 6:44 pm |
| KLTX | 50 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 1.75 in | 1:24 pm | 6:40 pm |
| KRAX | 44 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1.25 in | 1:24 pm | 6:41 pm |
| KCLX | 30 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 1.50 in | 3:11 pm | 6:38 pm |
| KFCX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 2:04 pm | 2:04 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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