Hail on Date

Hail in Indianapolis on Friday, June 18, 2021

The Storm Prediction Center logged 32 hail reports in Indianapolis on Friday, June 18, 2021, between 6:42 pm and 9:28 pm EDT, in 5 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 3.25 inches at New Palestine (Hancock County) at 7:55 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,257 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 482 rated a 100% chance of hail and 428 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

32spotter hail reports in the metro
3.25 inlargest reported, New Palestine
1,257radar hail signatures inside the metro, 482 rated 100%
4.00 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Indianapolis counties with 1257 radar hail signatures and 32 spotter hail reports on June 18, 2021 Marion Hamilton Hendricks Johnson Boone Hancock Madison Morgan Shelby 3.25 in, New Palestine
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 15 places in Hamilton, Hancock, Madison, Marion and Morgan counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.

Every hail report logged that day

Times are Eastern 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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
6:42 pm1.002 NNW NoraHamilton(IND)
6:44 pm1.252 S CarmelHamilton(IND)
6:45 pm1.00FishersHamilton1.00 INCH HAIL IN FISHERS. SIZE ESTIMATED FROM PHOTO. (IND)
6:47 pm1.001 SE CarmelHamilton(IND)
6:48 pm1.001 W CastletonMarion(IND)
6:50 pm1.001 S CastletonMarion(IND)
6:50 pm1.501 SSW CastletonMarion(IND)
6:51 pm1.251 N NoraHamilton(IND)
6:55 pm2.00CastletonMarion(IND)
6:55 pm1.752 NE NoraHamilton(IND)
6:56 pm1.252 S CastletonMarion(IND)
6:58 pm1.002 SW CastletonMarion(IND)
6:58 pm1.751 W CastletonMarionANOTHER CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 1 W CASTLETON. NOW ADDING THAT CARS DAMAGED IN CASTLETON SQUARE MALL. (IND)
7:00 pm2.001 SSE CastletonMarionTIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND)
7:00 pm1.002 N McCordsvilleHamilton(IND)
7:02 pm1.00McCordsvilleHancock(IND)
7:07 pm2.001 SSE Geist ReservoirMarion(IND)
7:10 pm1.75LawrenceMarionTIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. SOCIAL MEDIA POST FROM LAWRENCE. PHOTO WITH TWO 1.75 INCH STONES NEXT TO A QUARTER. SEVERAL OTHER STONES 1.00 TO 1.50 INCHES. (IND)
7:20 pm1.753 ENE Warren ParkMarion(IND)
7:20 pm2.001 W MarklevilleMadisonSEVERAL TREES DOWN AS WELL. (IND)
7:21 pm1.003 NE MonroviaMorgan(IND)
7:30 pm1.753 SSE Warren ParkMarion(IND)
7:40 pm1.001 WNW New PalestineHancock(IND)
7:40 pm2.002 NNE New PalestineHancock(IND)
7:40 pm3.251 E CumberlandHancockTIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND)
7:45 pm2.00GreenfieldHancockTIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND)
7:47 pm1.005 WSW New PalestineMarion(IND)
7:50 pm2.50New PalestineHancock(IND)
7:54 pm1.751 NNE New PalestineHancock(IND)
7:55 pm3.25New PalestineHancockTIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (IND)
9:17 pm1.752 NW MartinsvilleMorgan(IND)
9:28 pm1.754 NW MorgantownMorgan(IND)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

1,257 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; 482 were rated 100% and 97 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KIDS42213613442.00 in8:30 am11:59 pm
KIWX2648978314.00 in8:07 am11:57 pm
KILN1627362153.00 in8:06 am11:56 pm
KIND1365955173.25 in8:26 am11:57 pm
KLVX1307055163.00 in9:23 am11:58 pm
KVWX1195543143.50 in6:17 pm11:59 pm
KLOT210000.75 in8:24 am11:56 pm
KILX30101.00 in11:32 pm11:53 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Eastern Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Indianapolis when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 9 counties (Marion, Hamilton, Hendricks, Johnson, Boone, Hancock, Madison, Morgan and Shelby 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.