Hail in Houston on Friday, May 2, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Houston on Friday, May 2, 2025, between 12:26 pm and 4:03 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.25 inches at 5 ENE Atascocita (Harris County) at 12:26 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,948 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 558 rated a 100% chance of hail and 585 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Harris and Liberty counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Dayton 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Kingwood 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Atascocita 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:26 pm | 1.25 | 5 ENE Atascocita | Harris | (HGX) |
| 2:08 pm | 1.00 | 5 S Dayton | Liberty | (HGX) |
| 2:58 pm | 1.00 | 2 E Kingwood | Harris | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (HGX) |
| 3:48 pm | 1.00 | 2 E Kingwood | Harris | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (HGX) |
| 4:03 pm | 1.00 | Dayton | Liberty | Social media video showed numerous quarter-sized hailstones in Dayton. Time estimated based on radar. (HGX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
2,948 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; 558 were rated 100% and 61 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 | 948 | 75 | 186 | 14 | 2.25 in | 9:34 am | 11:00 pm |
| KHOU | 781 | 171 | 152 | 22 | 3.00 in | 12:01 am | 11:57 pm |
| KHGX | 382 | 91 | 81 | 10 | 3.75 in | 9:36 am | 11:54 pm |
| KGRK | 351 | 75 | 44 | 3 | 2.25 in | 11:25 am | 10:51 pm |
| KLCH | 263 | 80 | 63 | 8 | 3.50 in | 11:19 am | 11:35 pm |
| KPOE | 147 | 46 | 40 | 4 | 3.75 in | 12:29 am | 11:58 pm |
| KEWX | 71 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:06 pm | 11:00 pm |
| KCRP | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.25 in | 10:21 pm | 11:40 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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