Hail in Houston on Wednesday, April 5, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Houston on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, between 5:59 pm and 7:28 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 7 NNW Mission Bend (Harris County) at 6:12 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,872 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 319 rated a 100% chance of hail and 187 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Fort Bend, Harris and Montgomery counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Katy 5 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Mission Bend 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- New Waverly 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Pecan Grove 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:59 pm | 1.00 | Pecan Grove | Fort Bend | QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN PECAN GROVE. (HGX) |
| 6:01 pm | 1.50 | 5 SSE Katy | Fort Bend | PING PONG SIZED HAIL NEAR FALCON LANDING BLVD. (HGX) |
| 6:04 pm | 1.00 | Katy | Harris | QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN KATY. (HGX) |
| 6:05 pm | 2.00 | 5 E Katy | Harris | QUARTER TO EGG SIZED HAIL NEAR FRANZ ROAD AND NORTH WESTGREEN BLVD INTERSECTION. (HGX) |
| 6:05 pm | 1.50 | 6 E Katy | Harris | PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL NEAR THE NORTH FRY ROAD AND MORTON ROAD INTERSECTION. (HGX) |
| 6:06 pm | 2.00 | 6 E Katy | Harris | QUARTER TO EGG SIZED HAIL NEAR THE I-10 AND FRY ROAD INTERSECTION. (HGX) |
| 6:07 pm | 1.00 | Mission Bend | Fort Bend | QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN MISSION BEND. (HGX) |
| 6:12 pm | 2.00 | 7 NNW Mission Bend | Harris | EGG SIZED HAIL NEAR THE GREENHOUSE ROAD AND I-10 INTERSECTION. (HGX) |
| 7:28 pm | 1.00 | 4 SSW New Waverly | Montgomery | QUARTER SIZED HAIL BETWEEN NEW WAVERLY AND WILLIS. (HGX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,872 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; 319 were rated 100% and 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHOU | 515 | 114 | 63 | 3 | 2.25 in | 12:05 pm | 9:14 pm |
| KIAH | 445 | 30 | 36 | 0 | 1.50 in | 11:27 am | 11:59 pm |
| KGRK | 324 | 51 | 36 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:29 pm | 11:59 pm |
| KHGX | 285 | 52 | 26 | 0 | 1.75 in | 11:15 am | 11:58 pm |
| KEWX | 130 | 49 | 21 | 0 | 1.75 in | 1:21 pm | 11:59 pm |
| KLCH | 125 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1.50 in | 11:17 am | 9:59 pm |
| KPOE | 48 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 12:52 pm | 10:29 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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