Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, May 30, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, May 30, 2024, between 2:57 pm and 10:55 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 2 NNE Waxahachie (Ellis County) at 3:00 pm. NOAA radar flagged 4,745 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 733 rated a 100% chance of hail and 591 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 2 places in Ellis and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Waxahachie 4 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Crowley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:57 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Waxahachie | Ellis | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 3:00 pm | 2.00 | 2 NNE Waxahachie | Ellis | 2 in hail Waxahachie US77 & Dart way. (FWD) |
| 3:00 pm | 1.25 | 3 N Waxahachie | Ellis | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 3:10 pm | 1.25 | Waxahachie | Ellis | quarter to ping pong size hail in Waxahachie. (FWD) |
| 10:55 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Crowley | Tarrant | Quarter size hail reported in Burleson. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
4,745 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; 733 were rated 100% and 32 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 | 1,664 | 272 | 259 | 9 | 2.25 in | 9:11 am | 11:59 pm |
| KDFW | 1,408 | 142 | 158 | 4 | 2.25 in | 9:09 am | 11:59 pm |
| KFWS | 729 | 141 | 77 | 10 | 3.00 in | 9:15 am | 11:58 pm |
| KDYX | 372 | 91 | 47 | 5 | 2.75 in | 9:06 am | 11:57 pm |
| KGRK | 357 | 59 | 41 | 4 | 2.50 in | 9:56 am | 11:57 pm |
| KFDR | 158 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 1.25 in | 9:10 am | 11:57 pm |
| KTLX | 44 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 9:08 am | 11:56 pm |
| KSHV | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 12:37 pm | 3:46 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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