Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, April 20, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 28 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, April 20, 2023, between 10:39 am and 10:45 pm CDT, in 6 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at 1 SSE Plano (Collin County) at 10:30 pm.
NOAA's radar hail archive holds no records at all for April 20, 2023 (UTC), anywhere in the country, so radar figures for this date are incomplete. That is a gap in NOAA's processing, not a sign that radar saw no hail.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 14 places in Collin, Dallas, Johnson, Kaufman, Rockwall and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Plano 4 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Crandall 3 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Forney 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Kaufman 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Rockwall 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Allen 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Alvarado 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Rowlett 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Carrollton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Euless 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Grandview 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Irving 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Keene 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Terrell 1 report, up to 1.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:39 am | 1.00 | 1 S Alvarado | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 2:20 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Rowlett | Dallas | EM RELAYED THAT ROWLETT FIRE REPORTING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT MILLER AND CHIESA IN ROWLETT AT 2:20 PM. (FWD) |
| 2:25 pm | 1.00 | 2 WNW Rowlett | Dallas | 1 HAIL IN ROWLETT... AT ROWLETT ROAD AND HICKOX. (FWD) |
| 2:45 pm | 1.00 | 5 WNW Grandview | Johnson | EM REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL NEAR HIGHWAY 4 AND CR 305 NEAR GRANDVIEW. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 2:50 pm | 1.00 | Rockwall | Rockwall | EM REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL AT ROCKWALL COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 2:54 pm | 1.50 | 1 SSE Rockwall | Rockwall | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 2:56 pm | 1.50 | 1 SSE Rockwall | Rockwall | SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE REPORT OF 1.5 INCH HAIL NEAR RALPH HALL PARKWAY AND SH 205 IN ROCKWALL. (FWD) |
| 3:43 pm | 1.50 | 1 SW Forney | Kaufman | BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYS REPORT OF PING PONG SIZE HAIL... JUST SHY OF GOLF BALL SIZE NEAR A MIDDLE SCHOOL IN FORNEY. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 4:00 pm | 1.50 | 4 SSE Forney | Kaufman | HAM RELAYS TRAINED SPOTTER REPORT OF PING PONG HAIL ON I-20 AND FM 741 NEAR FORNEY/HEARTLAND. (FWD) |
| 4:17 pm | 1.75 | 4 SE Forney | Kaufman | BROADCAST MEDIA REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT FM 1641 AND HELMS TRAIL IN TALTY. COVERING GROUND. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 4:25 pm | 2.50 | Crandall | Kaufman | SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE OF 2 TO 2.5 INCH HAIL IN CRANDALL. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 4:25 pm | 3.00 | 2 N Crandall | Kaufman | DELAYED REPORT. SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE OF LARGE HAILSTONE MEASURING AROUND 3.5 INCHES. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 4:33 pm | 1.75 | 4 NE Crandall | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: GOLF BALL (1.75 IN.). (FWD) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.75 | 3 SW Terrell | Kaufman | BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYS SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL DUE SOUTH OF THE BUCEES IN TERRELL. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 5:21 pm | 1.25 | 1 E Kaufman | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:25 pm | 1.50 | 1 ENE Kaufman | Kaufman | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 5:29 pm | 1.25 | 1 E Kaufman | Kaufman | SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE OF ESTIMATED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL. TIME AND LOCATION ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 9:56 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Irving | Dallas | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 9:57 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSW Euless | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 10:20 pm | 1.00 | 3 SSW Carrollton | Dallas | QUARTER SIZED HAIL AT I-35 AND BELT LINE RD IN CARROLLTON. (FWD) |
| 10:30 pm | 1.75 | 5 SSE Keene | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 10:30 pm | 3.00 | 1 SSE Plano | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: TEA CUP (3.00 IN.) ALSO RECEIVED SOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO OF A SPIKEY 3 INCH HAILSTONE MEASURED FROM SAME LOCATION. (FWD) |
| 10:38 pm | 1.75 | 2 E Plano | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: GOLF BALL (1.75 IN.). (FWD) |
| 10:39 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Alvarado | Johnson | CORRECTS TIME OF PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 1 S ALVARADO. (FWD) |
| 10:40 pm | 2.00 | 1 SE Allen | Collin | (FWD) |
| 10:41 pm | 1.25 | 3 NE Plano | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 10:42 pm | 1.50 | 2 S Plano | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
| 10:45 pm | 1.50 | 1 SE Allen | Collin | REPORT FROM MPING: PING PONG BALL (1.50 IN.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
NOAA's radar hail archive holds no records at all for April 20, 2023 (UTC), anywhere in the country, so radar figures for this date are incomplete. That is a gap in NOAA's processing, not a sign that radar saw no hail. The 1,033 signatures NOAA does hold for this local day are counted below.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDAL | 308 | 6 | 54 | 1 | 2.00 in | 7:03 pm | 11:33 pm |
| KDFW | 266 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 2.00 in | 7:03 pm | 11:41 pm |
| KFWS | 228 | 9 | 42 | 14 | 3.00 in | 7:02 pm | 11:30 pm |
| KDYX | 155 | 14 | 44 | 6 | 2.50 in | 7:00 pm | 11:10 pm |
| KGRK | 66 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1.50 in | 7:15 pm | 11:28 pm |
| KTLX | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 8:23 pm | 8:50 pm |
| KSHV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 9:50 pm | 9:56 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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