Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, June 15, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 10 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, June 15, 2023, between 9:53 pm and 11:33 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 5.00 inches at Sanger (Denton County) at 9:56 pm. NOAA radar flagged 610 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 373 rated a 100% chance of hail and 385 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Collin, Denton and Hunt counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Sanger 7 reports, up to 5.00 in
- Blue Ridge 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Quinlan 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- West Tawakoni 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:53 pm | 3.00 | 2 NW Sanger | Denton | Social media and HAM report of 3 inch hail NW of Sanger. Time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 9:54 pm | 1.00 | 4 WNW Sanger | Denton | Quarter size hail reported 2 miles north of Bolivar. (FWD) |
| 9:55 pm | 1.50 | 6 W Sanger | Denton | Ping pong size hail reported 6 miles W of Sanger. (FWD) |
| 9:56 pm | 5.00 | Sanger | Denton | Photo of 5-5.5 inch hail in Sanger. Time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 9:57 pm | 2.00 | 1 NW Sanger | Denton | Egg size hail reported on NW side of Sanger. Time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 9:59 pm | 1.50 | 4 WNW Sanger | Denton | Ping pong size hail reported 2 miles north of Bolivar. (FWD) |
| 10:07 pm | 2.50 | Sanger | Denton | Tennis ball size hail reported on NW side of Sanger near 35 via social media. (FWD) |
| 10:15 pm | 2.00 | Blue Ridge | Collin | EM reports 2 in hail in Blue Ridge. (FWD) |
| 11:30 pm | 1.75 | 3 WSW West Tawakoni | Hunt | Delayed report: Public report of golf ball size near CR-3613 just east of Hawk Cove. (FWD) |
| 11:33 pm | 1.00 | Quinlan | Hunt | EM reports quarter size hail in Quinlan. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
610 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; 373 were rated 100% and 151 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 | 280 | 214 | 213 | 105 | 3.50 in | 8:43 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KDFW | 189 | 41 | 73 | 14 | 3.25 in | 9:07 pm | 11:52 pm |
| KFWS | 82 | 62 | 58 | 23 | 3.75 in | 9:18 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KTLX | 20 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 2.25 in | 9:41 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KDYX | 14 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2.00 in | 9:23 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KSHV | 13 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 3.50 in | 10:40 pm | 11:32 pm |
| KFDR | 12 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2.00 in | 9:48 pm | 11:56 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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