Hail in Houston on Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 10 hail reports in Houston on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, between 1:23 pm and 4:24 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 3 NW Nassau Bay (Harris County) at 2:28 pm. NOAA radar flagged 919 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 399 rated a 100% chance of hail and 360 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Harris County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Webster 4 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Nassau Bay 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Friendswood 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Houston 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Jersey Village 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- South Houston 1 report, up to 1.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:23 pm | 1.50 | 6 NE Jersey Village | Harris | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (HGX) |
| 1:40 pm | 1.75 | 3 WNW South Houston | Harris | (HGX) |
| 1:44 pm | 1.00 | 5 SE Houston | Harris | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (HGX) |
| 1:55 pm | 1.00 | 4 NW Webster | Harris | A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail at the intersection of Hwy 3 and Clear Lake City Blvd as a line of severe storms moved through the area. (HGX) |
| 2:15 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Webster | Harris | Corrects previous hail report from 1 NW Webster. Quarter-sized hail was observed in the Medical Center area of Clear Lake. (HGX) |
| 2:18 pm | 1.75 | 2 NNW Webster | Harris | Golfball hail damaged cars and roofs. (HGX) |
| 2:23 pm | 1.00 | 2 NNE Friendswood | Harris | Corrects previous hail report from 2 NNE Friendswood. Quarter-sized hail was observed in Friendswood. Several trees were also downed in the area of Tall Ships Dr. (HGX) |
| 2:28 pm | 1.75 | 3 NW Nassau Bay | Harris | Golf ball-sized hail was observed in Clear Lake. Additionally... strong thunderstorm winds resulted in damage to tree limbs. (HGX) |
| 2:30 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Nassau Bay | Harris | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (HGX) |
| 4:24 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Webster | Harris | Quarter-sized hail was observed in the Medical Center area of Clear Lake. (HGX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
919 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; 399 were rated 100% and 96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIAH | 289 | 75 | 61 | 6 | 2.50 in | 11:59 am | 2:55 pm |
| KHOU | 213 | 102 | 111 | 27 | 2.50 in | 12:14 pm | 1:59 pm |
| KHGX | 143 | 66 | 64 | 22 | 3.00 in | 12:02 pm | 3:24 pm |
| KGRK | 125 | 68 | 51 | 22 | 2.50 in | 12:03 pm | 2:28 pm |
| KLCH | 89 | 67 | 54 | 19 | 3.25 in | 12:35 pm | 3:18 pm |
| KEWX | 47 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:35 pm | 3:01 pm |
| KPOE | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 1:07 pm | 3:18 pm |
| KCRP | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in | 2:57 pm | 3:13 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.
Check an address for May 28, 2024
See, free, how many hail signatures NOAA recorded within 1, 3 and 5 miles of one address that day and the nearest spotter report. The full report is $19.
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 Houston when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 9 counties (Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston, Waller, Liberty, Chambers and Austin 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.