Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 24 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, between 5:34 pm and 11:42 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at Haslet (Tarrant County) at 8:56 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,937 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 399 rated a 100% chance of hail and 532 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 13 places in Dallas, Denton, Kaufman and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Haslet 7 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Roanoke 4 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Kaufman 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Little Elm 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Balch Springs 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Copper Canyon 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Crandall 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Grays Prairie 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Gun Barrel City 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Mabank 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Marshall Creek 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Northlake 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Saginaw 1 report, up to 2.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:34 pm | 1.50 | 2 NNW Gun Barrel City | Kaufman | PING PONG SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT THE GUN BARREL CITY AIRPORT. (FWD) |
| 5:50 pm | 1.25 | 8 N Mabank | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:57 pm | 1.00 | 3 ESE Balch Springs | Dallas | TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 6:07 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Crandall | Kaufman | TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:52 pm | 2.00 | 3 N Saginaw | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT...2 INCH HAIL STONES MEASURED A FEW MILES NORTH OF SAGINAW. (FWD) |
| 8:55 pm | 3.00 | 3 SW Haslet | Tarrant | PICTURE SENT FROM NEAR WAGLEY ROBERTSON RD AND W BONDS RANCH ROAD. (FWD) |
| 8:55 pm | 2.50 | 2 SSW Haslet | Tarrant | TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:56 pm | 3.00 | Haslet | Tarrant | IMAGE VIA TWITTER. MEASURED 3 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:57 pm | 1.25 | 2 S Haslet | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:02 pm | 1.75 | 2 E Haslet | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 9:02 pm | 2.00 | 2 ENE Haslet | Tarrant | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF 2 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 9:09 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Roanoke | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:09 pm | 1.25 | 3 WSW Roanoke | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:12 pm | 1.25 | 2 W Roanoke | Denton | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:15 pm | 2.00 | 2 SSW Haslet | Tarrant | IMAGE ON TWITTER OF 2 INCH HAIL. (FWD) |
| 9:17 pm | 1.50 | 2 WNW Roanoke | Denton | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:34 pm | 2.00 | 2 SSW Northlake | Denton | (FWD) |
| 9:36 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Marshall Creek | Denton | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:45 pm | 1.00 | 2 NW Copper Canyon | Denton | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 10:08 pm | 1.50 | 1 W Little Elm | Denton | (FWD) |
| 10:23 pm | 1.75 | 5 NE Little Elm | Denton | (FWD) |
| 11:08 pm | 1.00 | 2 N Grays Prairie | Kaufman | DELAYED REPORT...QUARTER SIZE HAIL VIA MPING NORTH OF GRAYS PRAIRIE. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 11:29 pm | 1.50 | 2 S Kaufman | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 11:42 pm | 1.00 | 6 ESE Kaufman | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,937 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; 399 were rated 100% and 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDAL | 698 | 111 | 173 | 13 | 2.50 in | 4:34 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KDFW | 502 | 64 | 108 | 4 | 2.25 in | 4:54 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KFWS | 295 | 88 | 102 | 29 | 4.00 in | 4:50 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KDYX | 140 | 54 | 52 | 16 | 3.75 in | 5:29 pm | 11:49 pm |
| KGRK | 130 | 30 | 54 | 7 | 2.50 in | 4:52 pm | 11:51 pm |
| KFDR | 104 | 39 | 33 | 3 | 2.50 in | 7:27 pm | 10:05 pm |
| KSHV | 39 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2.25 in | 5:33 pm | 11:54 pm |
| KTLX | 29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 7:36 pm | 10:00 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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