Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, June 14, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 18 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, between 5:04 pm and 6:24 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at Alma (Ellis County) at 6:24 pm. NOAA radar flagged 527 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 200 rated a 100% chance of hail and 195 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Ellis County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Waxahachie 8 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Midlothian 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Alma 3 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Ennis 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Oak Leaf 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:04 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSW Midlothian | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:14 pm | 1.00 | 3 ESE Midlothian | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:16 pm | 1.50 | 1 ESE Midlothian | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:23 pm | 1.25 | 2 S Midlothian | Ellis | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:25 pm | 1.00 | 2 ENE Waxahachie | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:27 pm | 1.00 | 5 ENE Waxahachie | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:27 pm | 1.00 | 3 SW Oak Leaf | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:29 pm | 1.50 | 2 ENE Waxahachie | Ellis | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:33 pm | 1.75 | 4 SE Midlothian | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:36 pm | 2.50 | 2 SSE Waxahachie | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:39 pm | 1.75 | 2 SE Waxahachie | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 5:45 pm | 2.50 | 2 S Waxahachie | Ellis | Ping pong ball to tennis ball sized hail in Waxahachie. (FWD) |
| 5:45 pm | 3.00 | 2 NE Waxahachie | Ellis | 3.75 inch hail measured on a photo. (FWD) |
| 5:47 pm | 2.00 | 2 ENE Waxahachie | Ellis | Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:10 pm | 1.75 | 1 SW Ennis | Ellis | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:18 pm | 1.75 | 1 S Alma | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 6:20 pm | 2.50 | 1 W Alma | Ellis | Tennis ball sized hail about a mile west of I-45 in Alma. (FWD) |
| 6:24 pm | 3.00 | Alma | Ellis | 3-inch diameter hail measured 1 mile south of Alma. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
527 signatures from 6 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; 200 were rated 100% and 57 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 | 161 | 50 | 51 | 12 | 2.50 in | 4:26 pm | 8:50 pm |
| KDAL | 152 | 64 | 59 | 16 | 2.75 in | 3:57 pm | 9:15 pm |
| KFWS | 92 | 29 | 32 | 13 | 3.00 in | 4:23 pm | 9:18 pm |
| KGRK | 86 | 38 | 36 | 8 | 2.25 in | 4:45 pm | 9:21 pm |
| KDYX | 24 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 2.75 in | 4:55 pm | 6:26 pm |
| KSHV | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1.25 in | 4:43 pm | 9:18 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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