Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 32 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, between 7:30 pm and 9:05 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.25 inches at 3 SW Roanoke (Tarrant County) at 8:40 pm. NOAA radar flagged 611 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 115 rated a 100% chance of hail and 140 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 14 places in Denton, Parker and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Keller 6 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Saginaw 6 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Eagle Mountain 4 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Blue Mound 2 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Flower Mound 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Haslet 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Lakeside 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Trophy Club 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Bartonville 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Hudson Oaks 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lake Worth 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Lewisville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Roanoke 1 report, up to 3.25 in
- Watauga 1 report, up to 1.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 pm | 1.00 | 2 WNW Hudson Oaks | Parker | DELAYED REPORT - QUARTER SIZE HAIL MEASURED AND REPORTED BY SOUTH FIELD STATION EAST PARKER. (FWD) |
| 7:58 pm | 1.00 | 5 W Lakeside | Parker | QUARTER HAIL 5 WEST OFF LAKESIDE. (FWD) |
| 8:06 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Lakeside | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - QUARTER HAIL AT 199 AND NINE MILE BRIDGE IN NW TARRANT COUNTY. (FWD) |
| 8:07 pm | 1.00 | Saginaw | Tarrant | MULTIPLE REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL FROM AZLE TO SAGINAW. (FWD) |
| 8:14 pm | 1.75 | 1 NE Lake Worth | Tarrant | GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED ON BOAT CLUB RD. (FWD) |
| 8:15 pm | 1.50 | 2 SE Eagle Mountain | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR BOAT CLUB AND BAILEY BOSWELL. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:15 pm | 3.00 | 1 SE Eagle Mountain | Tarrant | 3 INCH HAIL REPORTED AT BOAT CLUB AND BAILEY BOSWELL. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR. (FWD) |
| 8:19 pm | 1.00 | 4 NE Eagle Mountain | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY WILLOW SPRING AND BONDS RANCH. (FWD) |
| 8:20 pm | 2.00 | 3 NNE Saginaw | Tarrant | 2 INCH HAIL WITH NUMEROUS HOMES AND VEHICLES DAMAGED. (FWD) |
| 8:21 pm | 1.75 | 1 NW Saginaw | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED BY BAILEY BOSWELL AND BUSINESS 287. (FWD) |
| 8:22 pm | 1.00 | 3 SSE Haslet | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT. HERITAGE TRACE AND I-35 GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED. (FWD) |
| 8:23 pm | 1.75 | 2 NNE Saginaw | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED NEAR HARMON RD AND BLUE MOUND RD. (FWD) |
| 8:24 pm | 1.50 | 3 NE Saginaw | Tarrant | HAIL REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF US287 AND HARMON RD. (FWD) |
| 8:25 pm | 1.00 | 4 NNE Blue Mound | Tarrant | QUARTER INCH HAIL REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE NEAR PRESIDIO VISTA DR. (FWD) |
| 8:26 pm | 1.00 | Eagle Mountain | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN LAKE. (FWD) |
| 8:29 pm | 2.00 | 1 SW Saginaw | Tarrant | 2 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE. (FWD) |
| 8:30 pm | 3.00 | 4 NNE Blue Mound | Tarrant | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 4 NNE BLUE MOUND... 3 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE NEAR PRESIDIO VISTA DR. (FWD) |
| 8:30 pm | 1.75 | 3 W Keller | Tarrant | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE. (FWD) |
| 8:30 pm | 2.50 | 2 WNW Keller | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 2.5 INCH HAIL. (FWD) |
| 8:32 pm | 1.75 | 4 NW Watauga | Tarrant | GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE. (FWD) |
| 8:35 pm | 2.00 | 3 SSE Haslet | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 2 INCH HAIL NEAR HERITAGE TRACE AND EAST OF I-35. (FWD) |
| 8:37 pm | 2.50 | 4 WSW Keller | Tarrant | TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE. (FWD) |
| 8:37 pm | 3.00 | 3 WNW Keller | Tarrant | MEASURED 3” ON MOORHEN CIR IN KELLER. (FWD) |
| 8:40 pm | 2.50 | 2 N Keller | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 2.5 INCH HAIL 2 MILES N OF KELLER. (FWD) |
| 8:40 pm | 3.25 | 3 SW Roanoke | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT WITH PHOTO. HAIL SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN 3 INCHES. JUST EAST OF HILLCREST AIRPORT IN KELLER. (FWD) |
| 8:46 pm | 1.75 | 1 SE Trophy Club | Denton | GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED IN TROPHY CLUB. (FWD) |
| 8:47 pm | 2.25 | 2 NW Keller | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT - 2.25 INCH HAIL REPORTED NEAR 377 AND MT GILEAD IN KELLER. (FWD) |
| 8:54 pm | 1.50 | Flower Mound | Denton | 1.5 INCH HAIL REPORTED NEAR WELLINGTON ELEMENTARY IN FLOWER MOUND VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (FWD) |
| 8:58 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Bartonville | Denton | DELAYED REPORT - HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL REPORTED 1 S OF BARTONVILLE IN DENTON CO. (FWD) |
| 9:01 pm | 1.50 | 2 E Trophy Club | Denton | PING PONG BALL REPORTED IN FLOWER MOUND. (FWD) |
| 9:03 pm | 1.50 | 1 N Flower Mound | Denton | 1.5 INCH HAIL 1 N OF DOWNTOWN FLOWER MOUND. (FWD) |
| 9:05 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Lewisville | Denton | QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 40 KT WINDS MEASURED IN LEWISVILLE. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
611 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; 115 were rated 100% and 65 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 | 31 | 39 | 7 | 2.50 in | 6:32 am | 11:50 pm |
| KDFW | 164 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 2.50 in | 6:37 am | 11:46 pm |
| KFWS | 92 | 32 | 35 | 22 | 4.00 in | 8:18 am | 11:43 pm |
| KDYX | 57 | 22 | 23 | 20 | 4.00 in | 8:18 am | 11:45 pm |
| KFDR | 54 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 3.75 in | 8:20 am | 11:43 pm |
| KTLX | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 9:52 am | 11:50 pm |
| KGRK | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1.75 in | 9:59 am | 11:51 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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