Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, May 16, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 18 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, May 16, 2025, between 6:16 pm and 10:37 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at Joshua (Johnson County) at 6:45 pm. NOAA radar flagged 715 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 372 rated a 100% chance of hail and 363 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 13 places in Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Midlothian 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Crandall 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Ennis 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Godley 2 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Alvarado 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Briaroaks 1 report, up to 1.20 in
- Crowley 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Garrett 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Joshua 1 report, up to 2.75 in
- Pantego 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Terrell 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Venus 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Waxahachie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:16 pm | 2.50 | 3 N Godley | Johnson | delayed report of 2 to 2.5 inch hail reported in Godley. time estimated. (FWD) |
| 6:25 pm | 1.00 | 4 NE Pantego | Tarrant | delayed report of quarter hail from social media. (FWD) |
| 6:27 pm | 1.25 | 5 NNE Godley | Johnson | Multiple reports of quarter to half dollar hail. (FWD) |
| 6:45 pm | 2.75 | Joshua | Johnson | Facebook video showed golfball to baseball size hail near Joshua. (FWD) |
| 6:49 pm | 1.20 | Briaroaks | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 6:50 pm | 1.75 | 2 SSW Crowley | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 7:15 pm | 1.00 | Midlothian | Ellis | Photo of quarter hail on social media. (FWD) |
| 7:18 pm | 1.50 | 4 SSE Midlothian | Ellis | quarter to ping pong ball size hail reported. (FWD) |
| 7:19 pm | 1.00 | 1.5 ENE Venus | Ellis | quarter size hail and est wind 30-45 mph reported. (FWD) |
| 7:20 pm | 2.00 | 6 S Midlothian | Ellis | delayed report... photo on social media... time estimated from radar. (FWD) |
| 7:38 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNE Waxahachie | Ellis | Nickel to quarter size hail. (FWD) |
| 8:00 pm | 1.00 | Ennis | Ellis | Photo of quarter hail in N Ennis. (FWD) |
| 8:00 pm | 2.00 | 1 S Garrett | Ellis | (FWD) |
| 8:07 pm | 1.25 | 1 ESE Ennis | Ellis | 1.25 inch hail measured. (FWD) |
| 9:30 pm | 1.75 | 3 S Alvarado | Johnson | (FWD) |
| 10:17 pm | 1.75 | Crandall | Kaufman | Facebook photo showed golfball size hail in Crandall. (FWD) |
| 10:21 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Crandall | Kaufman | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 10:37 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Terrell | Kaufman | 1 inch hail measured in Terrell. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
715 signatures from 6 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; 372 were rated 100% and 145 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 | 236 | 120 | 123 | 46 | 4.00 in | 4:51 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KDFW | 230 | 110 | 95 | 31 | 2.75 in | 4:50 pm | 11:57 pm |
| KDYX | 102 | 55 | 50 | 29 | 3.25 in | 4:58 pm | 9:44 pm |
| KFWS | 79 | 38 | 50 | 23 | 4.00 in | 4:57 pm | 10:38 pm |
| KGRK | 66 | 49 | 45 | 16 | 3.00 in | 5:00 pm | 10:13 pm |
| KSHV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 10:35 pm | 10:42 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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