Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday, December 13, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, between 8:19 am and 10:22 am CST, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 2.50 inches at McLendon-chisholm (Rockwall County) at 10:13 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,414 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 300 rated a 100% chance of hail and 284 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Dallas, Johnson, Rockwall and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Burleson 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Duncanville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Fate 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Godley 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Heath 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mansfield 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- McLendon-chisholm 1 report, up to 2.50 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Standard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:19 am | 2.00 | 2 NW Godley | Johnson | PICTURE SHARED OF 2 INCH HAIL NW OF GODLEY. (FWD) |
| 9:01 am | 1.00 | 2 SW Burleson | Johnson | REPORT OF QUARTER (1.00 IN.) HAIL SW OF BURLESON. (FWD) |
| 9:10 am | 1.00 | 3 NNE Mansfield | Tarrant | SPOTTER REPORT OF QUARTER (1.00 IN.) HAIL IN NORTHERN MANSFIELD. (FWD) |
| 9:20 am | 1.00 | 1 S Duncanville | Dallas | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL 1 MILES S OF DUNCANVILLE... TX. (FWD) |
| 10:07 am | 1.00 | Heath | Rockwall | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORT OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN HEATH. (FWD) |
| 10:13 am | 2.50 | McLendon-chisholm | Rockwall | REPORTS OF TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL (2.5 INCHES) IN S ROCKWALL CO. (FWD) |
| 10:22 am | 1.50 | 5 SE Fate | Rockwall | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS 1.5 INCH HAIL 5 MILES SE OF FATE... TX. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,414 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; 300 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 | 510 | 87 | 91 | 30 | 3.25 in | 5:41 am | 12:37 pm |
| KDFW | 386 | 68 | 78 | 19 | 2.75 in | 6:20 am | 12:26 pm |
| KFWS | 180 | 42 | 40 | 14 | 3.00 in | 5:51 am | 12:39 pm |
| KDYX | 140 | 38 | 27 | 2 | 2.25 in | 5:43 am | 10:20 am |
| KFDR | 91 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 1.50 in | 5:10 am | 9:02 am |
| KGRK | 75 | 34 | 30 | 0 | 1.75 in | 6:47 am | 12:20 pm |
| KSHV | 20 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1.50 in | 10:21 am | 11:02 am |
| KTLX | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 6:06 am | 9:46 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Standard 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.