Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, May 24, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, May 24, 2024, between 4:20 pm and 6:52 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 3 WNW Waxahachie (Ellis County) at 4:24 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,833 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 1,159 rated a 100% chance of hail and 1,109 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 8 places in Denton, Ellis and Kaufman counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Alma 3 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Forney 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Marshall Creek 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Midlothian 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Pecan Hill 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Ponder 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Post Oak Bend City 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Waxahachie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:20 pm | 1.00 | 6 S Midlothian | Ellis | Quarter hail in Mountain Peak. (FWD) |
| 4:24 pm | 1.75 | 3 WNW Waxahachie | Ellis | Spotter reported a large quantity of hail falling... a lot of quarters with some golf balls mixed in. Hail was covering the ground. (FWD) |
| 4:36 pm | 1.00 | 2 SW Pecan Hill | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:07 pm | 1.25 | Forney | Kaufman | Spotter reported half dollar hail at I-20 and FM 740 in Forney. (FWD) |
| 5:09 pm | 1.25 | 4 S Forney | Kaufman | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 5:32 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNE Ponder | Denton | Quarter hail on the north side of Ponder. (FWD) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | Alma | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Alma | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:30 pm | 1.25 | 3 N Marshall Creek | Denton | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:35 pm | 1.00 | 5 E Alma | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 6:52 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Post Oak Bend City | Kaufman | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
2,833 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; 1,159 were rated 100% and 192 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 | 993 | 440 | 422 | 69 | 3.00 in | 12:38 am | 9:18 pm |
| KDFW | 721 | 199 | 229 | 19 | 2.50 in | 2:13 pm | 9:18 pm |
| KFWS | 433 | 201 | 198 | 60 | 4.00 in | 12:42 am | 10:28 pm |
| KGRK | 306 | 124 | 92 | 14 | 3.75 in | 2:19 pm | 9:05 pm |
| KDYX | 167 | 97 | 88 | 19 | 3.00 in | 2:51 pm | 8:12 pm |
| KFDR | 139 | 66 | 52 | 5 | 2.50 in | 3:17 pm | 6:55 pm |
| KSHV | 60 | 32 | 28 | 6 | 3.75 in | 1:06 am | 10:33 pm |
| KTLX | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 3:56 pm | 5:51 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.