Hail in Chicago on Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 10 hail reports in Chicago on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, between 5:14 pm and 5:55 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 4 WNW Shorewood (Kendall County) at 5:37 pm.
NOAA's radar hail archive holds no records at all for April 19, 2023 and April 20, 2023 (UTC), anywhere in the country, so radar figures for this date are missing. That is a gap in NOAA's processing, not a sign that radar saw no hail.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Kendall and Will counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Shorewood 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Yorkville 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Minooka 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Plainfield 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Plattville 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:14 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Yorkville | Kendall | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER SIZED HAIL NEAR IL71 AND IL47 IN SOUTH YORKVILLE. (LOT) |
| 5:16 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Yorkville | Kendall | DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL NEAR US34 AND GAME FARM ROAD IN YORKVILLE. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (LOT) |
| 5:26 pm | 1.50 | 1 W Plattville | Kendall | RELAYED VIA MPING. (LOT) |
| 5:37 pm | 1.75 | 4 WNW Shorewood | Kendall | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN WEST JOLIET. (LOT) |
| 5:40 pm | 1.00 | 4 W Shorewood | Kendall | RELAYED VIA MPING. (LOT) |
| 5:40 pm | 1.25 | 4 SW Plainfield | Will | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL NEAR CATON FARM ROAD AND COUNTY LINE ROAD IN WEST JOLIET. (LOT) |
| 5:44 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Minooka | Kendall | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER SIZED HAIL NEAR RIDGE ROAD AND HOLT ROAD NORTH OF MINOOKA. (LOT) |
| 5:49 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSW Shorewood | Will | MULTIPLE REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN WEST SHOREWOOD RELAYED VIA MPING. (LOT) |
| 5:53 pm | 1.00 | 1 WNW Shorewood | Will | (LOT) |
| 5:55 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Shorewood | Will | QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED AT JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE. (LOT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
NOAA's radar hail archive holds no records at all for April 19, 2023 and April 20, 2023 (UTC), anywhere in the country, so radar figures for this date are missing. That is a gap in NOAA's processing, not a sign that radar saw no hail.
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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 Chicago when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 7 counties (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will and Kendall 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.