Hail on Date

Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Storm Prediction Center logged 28 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, between 12:27 pm and 7:08 pm CDT, in 5 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Lewisville (Denton County) at 2:30 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,256 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 692 rated a 100% chance of hail and 659 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

28spotter hail reports in the metro
1.75 inlargest reported, Lewisville
2,256radar hail signatures inside the metro, 692 rated 100%
3.25 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Dallas-Fort Worth counties with 2256 radar hail signatures and 28 spotter hail reports on May 22, 2024 Collin Dallas Denton Ellis Hunt Kaufman Rockwall Johnson Parker Tarrant Wise 1.75 in, Lewisville
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 14 places in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant and Wise counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
12:27 pm1.005 NNW SpringtownWiseQuarter size hail S of Cottondate. (FWD)
12:36 pm1.002 E RhomeWiseReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
1:01 pm1.003 S JustinDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
1:09 pm1.00Flower MoundDenton1 in hail in Flower Mound. (FWD)
1:14 pm1.002 SE Corral CityDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
1:26 pm1.001 NW Copper CanyonDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
1:28 pm1.001 W Copper CanyonDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
1:28 pm1.001 NW Copper CanyonDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
1:43 pm1.252 S HackberryDentonReport from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD)
1:55 pm1.003 ESE HackberryDenton1 in hail in Frisco Lakes. (FWD)
2:05 pm1.002 SE Flower MoundDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
2:08 pm1.001 S Flower MoundDenton1 in hail in Flower Mound. (FWD)
2:09 pm1.002 E Flower MoundDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
2:14 pm1.503 SW Double OakDentonReport from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD)
2:20 pm1.002 W LewisvilleDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
2:30 pm1.75LewisvilleDentonPhoto on twitter. (FWD)
2:38 pm1.004 E The ColonyCollin1 in hail in the colony. (FWD)
2:39 pm1.003 S FriscoCollin1 in hail SRT and preston. (FWD)
2:40 pm1.001 E The ColonyDentonReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
2:45 pm1.004 NW PlanoCollinReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
2:48 pm1.004 W PlanoCollinReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
2:49 pm1.003 WNW PlanoCollin1 in hail corner of preston and legacy. (FWD)
2:59 pm1.002 NE PlanoCollinReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
3:11 pm1.252 NW PlanoCollin1.25 in hail coit and legacy. (FWD)
6:53 pm1.501 NW Grand PrairieDallasReport from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD)
6:55 pm1.002 E ArlingtonTarrantReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
7:04 pm1.003 NE ArlingtonTarrantReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)
7:08 pm1.001 NW Grand PrairieDallasReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

2,256 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; 692 were rated 100% and 84 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KDAL820242255333.00 in11:05 am11:54 pm
KDFW6418411382.75 in11:05 am10:02 pm
KFWS349156133303.25 in11:04 am11:48 pm
KFDR162856112.00 in11:05 am9:51 pm
KDYX154775992.25 in11:09 am11:54 pm
KTLX62261812.00 in11:49 am10:01 pm
KGRK353501.25 in5:15 pm11:53 pm
KSHV33191522.25 in1:06 pm8:01 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Dallas-Fort Worth when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 11 counties (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.