Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 13 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, between 8:44 am and 10:49 am CDT, in 5 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at 1 NW Sachse (Collin County) at 10:49 am. NOAA radar flagged 195 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 16 rated a 100% chance of hail and 1 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Garland 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Sachse 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Argyle 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Bardwell 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Colleyville 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Denton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Everman 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Murphy 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Roanoke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:44 am | 1.00 | 3 SW Everman | Tarrant | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 9:02 am | 1.25 | 3 W Colleyville | Tarrant | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 9:12 am | 1.00 | Roanoke | Denton | EM reports 1 inch hail in Roanoke. (FWD) |
| 9:21 am | 1.00 | Argyle | Denton | Photo on X of up to quarter size hail in Argyle. (FWD) |
| 9:34 am | 1.00 | 2 N Denton | Denton | 1 inch hail reported at the Denton Public Library North Branch. (FWD) |
| 10:24 am | 1.50 | Bardwell | Ellis | Delayed report. Social media image of hail around 1.5 inches in Bardwell. (FWD) |
| 10:28 am | 1.00 | Garland | Dallas | Spotter reports 1 inch hail in Garland. (FWD) |
| 10:35 am | 1.25 | Garland | Dallas | Social media picture of half dollar sized hail in North Garland. (FWD) |
| 10:36 am | 1.50 | 1 W Sachse | Dallas | Social media report of 1.5 inch hail around HWY 78 and 5th street in Sachse. Time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 10:40 am | 1.00 | 2 N Garland | Dallas | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 10:45 am | 1.00 | 1 W Sachse | Dallas | 1 inch hail in Sachse. (FWD) |
| 10:46 am | 1.25 | 1 E Murphy | Collin | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 10:49 am | 1.50 | 1 NW Sachse | Collin | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
195 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; 16 were rated 100% and 0 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 | 70 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 4:06 am | 7:03 am |
| KDFW | 45 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 4:13 am | 7:07 am |
| KFWS | 43 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 4:16 am | 7:05 am |
| KTLX | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 4:16 am | 7:32 am |
| KDYX | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 4:16 am | 5:03 am |
| KFDR | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 4:18 am | 5:32 am |
| KSHV | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 6:40 am | 6:40 am |
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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