Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday, April 12, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, between 5:42 pm and 6:17 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.25 inches at 3 SW Roanoke (Tarrant County) at 6:06 pm. NOAA radar flagged 778 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 269 rated a 100% chance of hail and 130 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Denton, Johnson and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Haslet 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Roanoke 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Joshua 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Marshall Creek 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Saginaw 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:42 pm | 1.00 | 4 SSW Joshua | Johnson | NICKEL AND QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED OFF CHISOLM TRAIL PARKWAY SW OF JOSHUA. (FWD) |
| 5:59 pm | 1.00 | 3 SW Haslet | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 6:00 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Saginaw | Tarrant | QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN SAGINAW. (FWD) |
| 6:00 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Haslet | Tarrant | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 1 NNW HASLET. QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN HASLET. (FWD) |
| 6:06 pm | 1.25 | 3 SW Roanoke | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 6:12 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Marshall Creek | Denton | QUARTER SIZE HAIL MEASURE JUST NORTH OF ROANOKE. (FWD) |
| 6:17 pm | 1.00 | 2 WNW Roanoke | Denton | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
778 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; 269 were rated 100% and 1 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 | 274 | 77 | 42 | 0 | 1.50 in | 11:21 am | 7:24 pm |
| KDAL | 261 | 81 | 34 | 1 | 2.00 in | 11:22 am | 8:05 pm |
| KFWS | 96 | 37 | 15 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:06 pm | 8:00 pm |
| KDYX | 65 | 39 | 24 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:04 pm | 6:46 pm |
| KGRK | 39 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 5:03 pm | 7:01 pm |
| KFDR | 24 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1.50 in | 11:10 am | 6:07 pm |
| KSHV | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 6:49 pm | 7:43 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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