Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Sunday, April 2, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 19 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Sunday, April 2, 2023, between 3:18 pm and 6:44 pm CDT, in 7 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 2 S Haltom City (Tarrant County) at 3:44 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,574 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 332 rated a 100% chance of hail and 379 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 12 places in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Fort Worth 5 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Richland Hills 4 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Addison 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Aledo 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Briaroaks 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Colleyville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Haltom City 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Hurst 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Richardson 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Runaway Bay 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Sanger 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Springtown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:18 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Runaway Bay | Wise | QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR RUNAWAY BAY. (FWD) |
| 3:20 pm | 1.00 | 4 NNE Aledo | Parker | DELAYED REPORT - QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN FAR WEST FORT WORTH. (FWD) |
| 3:36 pm | 1.75 | 3 SE Briaroaks | Johnson | EM REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR FM917 AND I-35. (FWD) |
| 3:36 pm | 1.25 | 4 SSW Richland Hills | Tarrant | DELAYED REPORT: SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF HALF-DOLLAR SIZE HAIL IN THE WHITE LAKE HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD. (FWD) |
| 3:40 pm | 1.00 | 3 SW Fort Worth | Tarrant | QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN FORT WORTH NEAR I30 AND UNIVERSITY DR. (FWD) |
| 3:40 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNE Fort Worth | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 3:42 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Fort Worth | Tarrant | 1.25 INCH HAIL JUST WEST OF DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH. (FWD) |
| 3:42 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Fort Worth | Tarrant | QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH. (FWD) |
| 3:43 pm | 1.50 | 2 E Fort Worth | Tarrant | NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTS PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL JUST EAST OF DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH. (FWD) |
| 3:44 pm | 1.75 | 2 S Haltom City | Tarrant | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN HALTOM CITY NEAR LOWER BIRDVILLE RD. (FWD) |
| 3:46 pm | 1.50 | 2 E Richland Hills | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 3:47 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Richland Hills | Tarrant | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN RICHLAND HILLS NORTH OF HWY121. (FWD) |
| 3:49 pm | 1.50 | Richland Hills | Tarrant | SPOTTER REPORTS MEASURED 1.5 INCH HAIL IN RICHLAND HILLS. (FWD) |
| 3:49 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Hurst | Tarrant | QUARTER-SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN HURST. (FWD) |
| 3:54 pm | 1.00 | 2 E Colleyville | Tarrant | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN COLLEYVILLE. (FWD) |
| 4:12 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Addison | Dallas | QUARTER-SIZE HAIL IN ADDISON. (FWD) |
| 4:19 pm | 1.00 | 4 NNE Richardson | Collin | DELAYED REPORT: QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN PLANO. (FWD) |
| 6:34 pm | 1.00 | 6 W Springtown | Parker | (FWD) |
| 6:44 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Sanger | Denton | QUARTER SIZE HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF SANGER. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,574 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; 332 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 | 463 | 81 | 86 | 0 | 1.75 in | 2:39 pm | 6:56 pm |
| KDFW | 425 | 60 | 103 | 0 | 1.75 in | 2:37 pm | 6:55 pm |
| KFWS | 308 | 63 | 75 | 6 | 2.50 in | 2:23 pm | 6:53 pm |
| KFDR | 141 | 59 | 53 | 2 | 2.00 in | 2:37 pm | 6:55 pm |
| KDYX | 134 | 46 | 47 | 4 | 2.25 in | 2:36 pm | 6:52 pm |
| KGRK | 49 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1.50 in | 3:00 pm | 5:03 pm |
| KTLX | 39 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 1.75 in | 3:05 pm | 6:51 pm |
| KSHV | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 3:54 pm | 5:54 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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