Hail in Houston on Friday, May 31, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Houston on Friday, May 31, 2024, between 6:50 am and 7:10 am CDT, in 1 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at 2 NW Dickinson (Galveston County) at 7:10 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,492 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 148 rated a 100% chance of hail and 124 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 2 places in Galveston County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Dickinson 4 reports, up to 2.75 in
- League City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:50 am | 2.00 | 2 WNW Dickinson | Galveston | Spotter report with photo. (HGX) |
| 6:51 am | 1.00 | 2 WSW Dickinson | Galveston | Spaceflight Meteorologist reported quarter size hail at the intersection of FM 646 and FM 517. (HGX) |
| 6:55 am | 1.75 | 2 NE League City | Galveston | (HGX) |
| 6:58 am | 1.25 | 2 WSW Dickinson | Galveston | Trained storm spotter reported hail ranging from 1.25 to 2 inches. (HGX) |
| 7:10 am | 2.75 | 2 NW Dickinson | Galveston | NWS forecasters collected numerous hailstones around the forecast office. The largest piece of hail was measured at 2.75 inches. (HGX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,492 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; 148 were rated 100% and 2 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 | 560 | 38 | 66 | 0 | 1.75 in | 3:33 am | 7:03 pm |
| KIAH | 486 | 50 | 16 | 0 | 1.75 in | 3:50 am | 8:16 am |
| KLCH | 154 | 35 | 27 | 2 | 2.25 in | 5:36 am | 9:12 am |
| KHGX | 141 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 1.75 in | 1:33 am | 9:17 am |
| KGRK | 97 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 5:53 am | 9:40 am |
| KPOE | 39 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:16 am | 9:57 am |
| KCRP | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 6:23 am | 7:49 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 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.