Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, March 16, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 42 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, March 16, 2023, between 3:06 pm and 7:58 pm CDT, in 7 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at 3 SSW Fort Worth (Tarrant County) at 5:20 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,745 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 590 rated a 100% chance of hail and 631 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 23 places in Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Cleburne 5 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Weatherford 5 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Benbrook 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Fort Worth 3 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Lawrence 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Westover Hills 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Irving 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Sansom Park 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Terrell 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Alma 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Alvarado 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Bardwell 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Bedford 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Chico 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Cool 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Cottonwood 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Edgecliff 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Lakeside 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Maypearl 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mineral Wells 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Pantego 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Springtown 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Sunnyvale 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:06 pm | 1.75 | 3 ENE Mineral Wells | Parker | (FWD) |
| 3:17 pm | 1.75 | 1 E Cool | Parker | (FWD) |
| 3:27 pm | 1.00 | 8 NW Weatherford | Parker | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 3:28 pm | 1.50 | 9 WSW Springtown | Parker | (FWD) |
| 3:30 pm | 1.50 | 5 N Weatherford | Parker | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 2 WNW WEATHERFORD. (FWD) |
| 3:30 pm | 2.00 | 3 NW Weatherford | Parker | (FWD) |
| 3:33 pm | 2.00 | 6 N Weatherford | Parker | (FWD) |
| 3:39 pm | 1.00 | 8 NNW Chico | Wise | (FWD) |
| 3:48 pm | 1.25 | 1 ENE Lakeside | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 3:54 pm | 3.00 | 3 NW Weatherford | Parker | (FWD) |
| 3:58 pm | 1.00 | Sansom Park | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 4:03 pm | 1.00 | Sansom Park | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 4:59 pm | 1.00 | 3 N Irving | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:01 pm | 1.00 | 3 S Westover Hills | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:02 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Irving | Dallas | (FWD) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.50 | 3 ENE Benbrook | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:06 pm | 1.00 | 3 SSW Fort Worth | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:07 pm | 1.75 | 3 S Westover Hills | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:10 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSW Fort Worth | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:12 pm | 2.00 | 2 NNE Benbrook | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:14 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Cleburne | Johnson | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:14 pm | 1.25 | 3 S Westover Hills | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:15 pm | 1.75 | 2 E Cleburne | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 5:16 pm | 2.00 | 1 WNW Cleburne | Johnson | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 1 WNW CLEBURNE. (FWD) |
| 5:17 pm | 1.50 | 2 NE Edgecliff | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:19 pm | 1.50 | 2 W Cleburne | Johnson | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:20 pm | 2.00 | 2 NE Cleburne | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 5:20 pm | 3.00 | 3 SSW Fort Worth | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:20 pm | 1.25 | 4 NW Sunnyvale | Dallas | (FWD) |
| 5:28 pm | 1.00 | 4 NE Pantego | Tarrant | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:31 pm | 1.00 | 5 SSE Bedford | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:35 pm | 1.50 | 2 NE Benbrook | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:58 pm | 1.75 | 4 SE Alvarado | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 6:02 pm | 1.00 | 3 N Maypearl | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 6:31 pm | 1.50 | 3 S Lawrence | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 6:32 pm | 1.00 | 4 SW Lawrence | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 6:39 pm | 1.75 | 2 S Terrell | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 6:46 pm | 1.50 | 2 WSW Terrell | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 6:49 pm | 1.25 | 1 ESE Lawrence | Kaufman | (FWD) |
| 6:58 pm | 1.75 | Bardwell | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:02 pm | 1.75 | Alma | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 7:58 pm | 1.00 | 4 SSW Cottonwood | Kaufman | (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,745 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; 590 were rated 100% and 94 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 | 598 | 153 | 214 | 27 | 3.25 in | 9:06 am | 7:57 pm |
| KDAL | 565 | 161 | 137 | 7 | 2.00 in | 8:55 am | 8:07 pm |
| KFWS | 202 | 91 | 100 | 29 | 3.50 in | 10:36 am | 7:55 pm |
| KDYX | 189 | 102 | 104 | 21 | 3.00 in | 3:05 pm | 7:38 pm |
| KGRK | 133 | 56 | 51 | 3 | 2.00 in | 3:58 pm | 7:51 pm |
| KFDR | 35 | 21 | 21 | 5 | 2.75 in | 3:04 pm | 4:50 pm |
| KSHV | 23 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2.50 in | 10:59 am | 7:54 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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