Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Sunday, August 1, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Sunday, August 1, 2021, between 4:03 pm and 4:18 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 SW Bedford (Tarrant County) at 4:15 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,939 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 257 rated a 100% chance of hail and 184 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Tarrant County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Bedford 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Euless 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Hurst 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:03 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSE Euless | Tarrant | AN NWS EMPLOYEE RELAYED A REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT THE FAA ARTCC. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (FWD) |
| 4:05 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSW Euless | Tarrant | AN EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR HIGHWAY 183 AND MAIN STREET IN EULESS. (FWD) |
| 4:05 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Bedford | Tarrant | QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR BEDFORD ROAD AND HIGHWAY 121. (FWD) |
| 4:15 pm | 1.75 | 1 SW Bedford | Tarrant | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR FOREST RIDGE DRIVE AND HIGHWAY 183. (FWD) |
| 4:18 pm | 1.00 | 1 ENE Hurst | Tarrant | EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL NEAR HIGHWAY 183 AND BROWN TRAIL. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,939 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; 257 were rated 100% and 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDFW | 584 | 50 | 49 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:07 pm | 10:34 pm |
| KDAL | 483 | 62 | 40 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:02 pm | 9:52 pm |
| KFWS | 287 | 53 | 39 | 6 | 4.00 in | 12:06 pm | 9:15 pm |
| KDYX | 243 | 50 | 37 | 6 | 3.25 in | 12:08 pm | 10:25 pm |
| KFDR | 150 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 1.25 in | 1:29 pm | 7:26 pm |
| KGRK | 123 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 1.25 in | 12:47 pm | 9:43 pm |
| KSHV | 42 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 12:22 pm | 3:46 pm |
| KTLX | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 1:29 pm | 6:52 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.