Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Saturday, May 23, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Saturday, May 23, 2026, between 2:16 am and 3:30 am CDT, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at 1 E Carrollton (Denton County) at 2:38 am. NOAA radar flagged 281 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 83 rated a 100% chance of hail and 49 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Dallas, Denton, Rockwall and Tarrant counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Carrollton 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Duncanville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Grapevine 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Heath 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- University Park 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:16 am | 1.00 | 1 NW Grapevine | Tarrant | Hail up to 1 inch was reported. (FWD) |
| 2:29 am | 1.00 | 4 E Duncanville | Dallas | Hail up to 1 inch was reported. (FWD) |
| 2:38 am | 1.50 | 1 E Carrollton | Denton | Delayed report. A post on X showed 1.5 inch hail near the intersection of Trinity Mills Rd and Scott Mill Rd. (FWD) |
| 2:55 am | 1.00 | 4 NNW University Park | Dallas | Hail up to 1 inches reported. (FWD) |
| 3:30 am | 1.00 | Heath | Rockwall | Delayed report. A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail in Heath on X. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
281 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; 83 were rated 100% and 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDYX | 132 | 54 | 29 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:05 am | 11:32 am |
| KFDR | 78 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:08 am | 11:39 am |
| KSHV | 41 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1.75 in | 2:56 am | 4:47 am |
| KTLX | 27 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:40 am | 3:36 am |
| KFWS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 11:28 am | 11:32 am |
| KDAL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 11:20 am | 11:20 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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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.