Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, May 16, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 12 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, May 16, 2022, between 12:00 am and 1:50 am CDT, in 2 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 3 WNW Allen (Collin County) at 1:49 am. NOAA radar flagged 795 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 285 rated a 100% chance of hail and 228 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Collin and Denton counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Allen 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Aubrey 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Fairview 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Frisco 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- McKinney 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Pilot Point 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Plano 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Prosper 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- The Colony 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 1.50 | 3 E The Colony | Collin | (FWD) |
| 12:05 am | 1.00 | Plano | Collin | NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL AT ROUNDROCK AND PARKER IN PLANO. (FWD) |
| 12:30 am | 1.00 | 4 NNE Frisco | Collin | DELAYED REPORT: QUARTER SIZE HAIL MEASURED EAST OF ELDORADO AND PRESTON ROAD INTERSECTION. (FWD) |
| 1:05 am | 1.25 | Aubrey | Denton | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 1.25 IN HAIL IN AUBREY. (FWD) |
| 1:18 am | 1.00 | 5 E Aubrey | Denton | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 1 IN HAIL. (FWD) |
| 1:25 am | 1.00 | 2 SE Prosper | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 1:30 am | 1.00 | 1 W Pilot Point | Denton | QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN PILOT POINT. (FWD) |
| 1:33 am | 1.00 | 5 W McKinney | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 1:43 am | 1.00 | 4 W Allen | Collin | QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT CUSTER AND MCDERMOT ST. (FWD) |
| 1:45 am | 1.00 | 1 ESE Allen | Collin | *DELAYED REPORT* REPORTED VIA MPING. (FWD) |
| 1:49 am | 1.75 | 3 WNW Allen | Collin | GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR ALLEN. (FWD) |
| 1:50 am | 1.00 | 2 S Fairview | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
795 signatures from 5 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; 285 were rated 100% and 12 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 | 408 | 166 | 134 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:01 am | 4:31 am |
| KDFW | 178 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 1.25 in | 12:05 am | 4:32 am |
| KFWS | 160 | 76 | 54 | 6 | 2.25 in | 12:04 am | 4:29 am |
| KFDR | 47 | 37 | 30 | 6 | 2.25 in | 12:04 am | 3:16 am |
| KSHV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 3:49 am | 3:54 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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