Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, March 14, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 21 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, March 14, 2024, between 5:45 pm and 8:31 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at 2 W Roanoke (Denton County) at 5:53 pm. NOAA radar flagged 822 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 192 rated a 100% chance of hail and 248 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 16 places in Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Haslet 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Hackberry 2 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Lincoln Park 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Roanoke 2 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Anna 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Argyle 1 report, up to 2.50 in
- Bartonville 1 report, up to 2.75 in
- Copper Canyon 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Corinth 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Double Oak 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Frisco 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Highland Village 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Lake Dallas 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Little Elm 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Prosper 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Westminster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:45 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Haslet | Tarrant | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.25 | 3 E Haslet | Tarrant | (FWD) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.00 | 2 NE Haslet | Tarrant | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:50 pm | 1.25 | 3 SW Roanoke | Tarrant | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:53 pm | 3.00 | 2 W Roanoke | Denton | (FWD) |
| 6:15 pm | 2.00 | 1 E Double Oak | Denton | (FWD) |
| 6:15 pm | 2.75 | 2 E Bartonville | Denton | Baseball sized hail in Lantana. (FWD) |
| 6:21 pm | 2.50 | 1 N Argyle | Denton | (FWD) |
| 6:26 pm | 2.00 | Highland Village | Denton | (FWD) |
| 6:26 pm | 1.50 | 1 E Copper Canyon | Denton | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:30 pm | 2.00 | 1 S Corinth | Denton | 2 inch diameter hail in Hickory Creek. (FWD) |
| 6:31 pm | 1.50 | 1 SE Lake Dallas | Denton | (FWD) |
| 6:47 pm | 1.50 | 2 SE Lincoln Park | Denton | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:50 pm | 1.75 | 2 WNW Frisco | Collin | (FWD) |
| 6:50 pm | 2.50 | 3 NE Hackberry | Denton | Delayed report: tennis ball hail at El Dorado Parkway and FM 423 in Frisco. (FWD) |
| 6:55 pm | 1.25 | Little Elm | Denton | (FWD) |
| 7:00 pm | 2.00 | 3 NE Hackberry | Denton | (FWD) |
| 7:15 pm | 1.50 | 2 E Lincoln Park | Denton | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD) |
| 7:21 pm | 1.75 | 4 NE Prosper | Collin | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (FWD) |
| 8:26 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Anna | Collin | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 8:31 pm | 1.25 | 4 NE Westminster | Collin | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
822 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; 192 were rated 100% and 70 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 | 278 | 19 | 71 | 3 | 2.25 in | 4:12 pm | 11:59 pm |
| KDAL | 175 | 19 | 57 | 8 | 2.25 in | 4:12 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KFWS | 158 | 69 | 61 | 26 | 4.00 in | 4:13 pm | 10:18 pm |
| KDYX | 75 | 34 | 23 | 20 | 4.00 in | 4:35 pm | 11:47 pm |
| KFDR | 55 | 32 | 20 | 13 | 4.00 in | 4:14 pm | 11:51 pm |
| KSHV | 34 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1.25 in | 8:01 pm | 10:17 pm |
| KGRK | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 4:13 pm | 6:49 pm |
| KTLX | 22 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:26 pm | 9:29 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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