Hail on Date

Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, May 10, 2021

The Storm Prediction Center logged 29 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, May 10, 2021, between 11:24 am and 10:48 pm CDT, in 8 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 4.00 inches at Ponder (Denton County) at 6:24 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,428 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 413 rated a 100% chance of hail and 484 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

29spotter hail reports in the metro
4.00 inlargest reported, Ponder
2,428radar hail signatures inside the metro, 413 rated 100%
3.00 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Dallas-Fort Worth counties with 2428 radar hail signatures and 29 spotter hail reports on May 10, 2021 Collin Dallas Denton Ellis Hunt Kaufman Rockwall Johnson Parker Tarrant Wise 4.00 in, Ponder
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 19 places in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hunt, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
11:24 am1.25Wolfe CityHuntDELAYED REPORT: 1.25 HAIL REPORTED IN WOLFE CITY. (FWD)
5:44 pm1.753 SSW WeatherfordParker(FWD)
5:45 pm1.002 SSW WeatherfordParkerREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
5:50 pm1.25Hudson OaksParker(FWD)
5:54 pm1.751 NW Willow ParkParkerREPORT FROM MPING: GOLF BALL (1.75 IN.). (FWD)
5:56 pm1.002 N AledoParkerSOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 1 INCH HAIL. (FWD)
6:05 pm1.002 SSW BoydWiseREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
6:10 pm1.251 SE AzleTarrantREPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD)
6:18 pm1.254 WNW JustinDenton(FWD)
6:21 pm1.004 W HasletTarrant(FWD)
6:24 pm1.003 SW HasletTarrantREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
6:24 pm2.75PonderDentonSOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 2.75 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD)
6:24 pm4.00PonderDentonSOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 4 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD)
6:25 pm1.50PonderDenton(FWD)
6:29 pm3.002 NNW PonderDentonSOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE OF MEASURED 3 INCH HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD)
6:33 pm1.752 SSW KrumDenton(FWD)
6:36 pm1.003 E BriaroaksJohnsonREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
6:37 pm1.003 NE BurlesonTarrant(FWD)
6:38 pm1.003 NW DentonDentonREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
6:41 pm1.254 WNW CrowleyTarrant(FWD)
6:44 pm1.002 NW CrowleyTarrantREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
8:53 pm1.251 NE EvermanTarrantREPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD)
9:15 pm1.003 N MansfieldTarrantQUARTER HAIL REPORTED AT INTERSECTION OF TURNER-WARNELL AND MATLOCK. (FWD)
9:17 pm1.003 NNE MansfieldTarrantREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
10:10 pm1.25LavonCollinQUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL IN LAVON. (FWD)
10:11 pm1.001 SSW LavonCollinREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
10:13 pm1.001 NNE LavonCollinREPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD)
10:15 pm1.50LavonCollinSOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO. (FWD)
10:48 pm1.002 ESE Balch SpringsDallas1 INCH HAIL AT I-20 NEAR BELT LINE RD. (FWD)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

2,428 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; 413 were rated 100% and 58 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KDAL6759711642.25 in8:51 am11:57 pm
KDFW5906810212.00 in9:35 am11:58 pm
KFWS45682107243.00 in10:22 am11:58 pm
KDYX2756458122.75 in4:51 pm11:41 pm
KFDR221423072.50 in4:51 pm9:44 pm
KGRK148556792.50 in5:15 pm11:47 pm
KTLX330000.75 in10:24 am9:27 pm
KSHV305412.50 in11:14 am11:53 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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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 Dallas-Fort Worth when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 11 counties (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise 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.