Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, April 9, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 30 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, April 9, 2021, between 6:20 pm and 8:24 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at Italy (Ellis County) at 8:04 pm. NOAA radar flagged 724 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 477 rated a 100% chance of hail and 274 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 14 places in Dallas, Ellis, Johnson and Kaufman counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Maypearl 5 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Grandview 4 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Forney 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Midlothian 3 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Rowlett 3 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Cockrell Hill 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Italy 2 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Venus 2 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Buckingham 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Dallas 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Duncanville 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Lancaster 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Milford 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Ovilla 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:20 pm | 1.50 | Grandview | Johnson | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF PING PONG SIZE HAIL. (FWD) |
| 6:25 pm | 2.00 | 1 ENE Grandview | Johnson | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 2 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 6:25 pm | 1.00 | 1 WNW Grandview | Johnson | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 1 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 6:26 pm | 1.75 | Grandview | Johnson | SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. (FWD) |
| 6:50 pm | 1.00 | 6 NNW Milford | Ellis | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 6:52 pm | 2.00 | 6 SW Maypearl | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 6:53 pm | 1.50 | Venus | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 6:54 pm | 2.75 | Venus | Johnson | TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 7:00 pm | 1.00 | 3 S Midlothian | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:00 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Midlothian | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:11 pm | 1.00 | 3 S Midlothian | Ellis | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 7:12 pm | 1.75 | 4 W Italy | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:12 pm | 1.00 | Ovilla | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:23 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Lancaster | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 7:34 pm | 1.75 | Maypearl | Ellis | TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 7:34 pm | 1.75 | 1 NNW Maypearl | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:36 pm | 1.50 | 2 SW Maypearl | Ellis | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 7:50 pm | 1.75 | 5 S Maypearl | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:55 pm | 1.00 | Forney | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 7:55 pm | 1.00 | 3 SSE Buckingham | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 7:56 pm | 1.00 | Forney | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 7:57 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Forney | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 8:04 pm | 3.00 | Italy | Ellis | IMAGE OF MEASURED 3 INCH HAIL. (FWD) |
| 8:09 pm | 2.00 | 4 NE Duncanville | Dallas | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 2 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:13 pm | 2.00 | 2 SE Cockrell Hill | Dallas | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 2 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:15 pm | 1.00 | 2 SW Rowlett | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 8:16 pm | 1.00 | 1 ESE Cockrell Hill | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 8:17 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Rowlett | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 8:22 pm | 1.00 | 4 E Dallas | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 8:24 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW Rowlett | Dallas | SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 1 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
724 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; 477 were rated 100% and 9 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 | 215 | 138 | 91 | 2 | 2.00 in | 9:14 am | 11:30 pm |
| KFWS | 177 | 115 | 76 | 3 | 2.50 in | 9:19 am | 11:41 pm |
| KDFW | 136 | 66 | 23 | 1 | 2.00 in | 9:16 am | 10:33 pm |
| KGRK | 110 | 93 | 43 | 1 | 2.00 in | 6:13 pm | 11:46 pm |
| KDYX | 50 | 46 | 38 | 2 | 2.25 in | 6:14 pm | 8:20 pm |
| KSHV | 32 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1.00 in | 10:18 am | 11:51 pm |
| KTLX | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 9:26 am | 9:36 am |
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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