Hail in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Thursday, April 20, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 10 hail reports in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Thursday, April 20, 2023, between 3:44 pm and 6:40 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 4 NNW Oglesby (Coryell County) at 4:14 pm.
NOAA's radar hail archive holds no records at all for April 20, 2023 (UTC), anywhere in the country, so radar figures for this date are incomplete. That is a gap in NOAA's processing, not a sign that radar saw no hail.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Bell, Coryell and McLennan counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Fort Gates 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Bruceville-eddy 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Crawford 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Fort Hood 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Gatesville 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Holland 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- McGregor 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Oglesby 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- South Mountain 1 report, up to 2.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:44 pm | 2.00 | Gatesville | Coryell | (FWD) |
| 3:53 pm | 2.00 | 2 ENE South Mountain | Coryell | (FWD) |
| 3:59 pm | 1.25 | 1 NNE Fort Gates | Coryell | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 4:14 pm | 2.00 | 4 NNW Oglesby | Coryell | (FWD) |
| 4:23 pm | 1.75 | 2 SSE Crawford | McLennan | (FWD) |
| 4:30 pm | 1.00 | 3 SW McGregor | McLennan | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL... WITH SOME LARGER STONES ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF MCGREGOR. TIME AND LOCATION ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 4:40 pm | 1.00 | 8 SE Fort Gates | Coryell | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.) TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (FWD) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.00 | Bruceville-Eddy | McLennan | BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYS SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 1 INCH HAIL IN BRUCEVILLE-EDDY. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. (FWD) |
| 5:23 pm | 1.25 | 3 SSW Fort Hood | Bell | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (FWD) |
| 6:40 pm | 1.00 | Holland | Bell | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
NOAA's radar hail archive holds no records at all for April 20, 2023 (UTC), anywhere in the country, so radar figures for this date are incomplete. That is a gap in NOAA's processing, not a sign that radar saw no hail. The 307 signatures NOAA does hold for this local day are counted below.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFWS | 107 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:12 pm | 11:55 pm |
| KGRK | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:52 pm | 11:48 pm |
| KDYX | 66 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 7:16 pm | 11:40 pm |
| KEWX | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 7:22 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KSJT | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 9:12 pm | 9:24 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 (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Killeen, Temple and Waco when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 5 counties (Bell, Coryell, McLennan, Lampasas and Falls 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.