Hail in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, between 5:06 pm and 8:47 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 4.50 inches at 2 S Bellmead (McLennan County) at 6:17 pm. NOAA radar flagged 637 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 234 rated a 100% chance of hail and 213 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Bell, Lampasas and McLennan counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Waco 3 reports, up to 4.00 in
- Bellmead 1 report, up to 4.50 in
- Beverly Hills 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Evant 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Gholson 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Hallsburg 1 report, up to 2.75 in
- Mart 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Temple 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Valley Mills 1 report, up to 2.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:06 pm | 1.00 | 6 SW Gholson | McLennan | AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER-SIZED HAIL IN CHINA SPRINGS. (FWD) |
| 5:13 pm | 2.75 | 1 ESE Valley Mills | McLennan | LARGE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL SIZED HAIL... POSSIBLY LARGER... REPORTED JUST EAST-SOUTHEAST OF VALLEY MILLS BY TRAINED SPOTTER. (FWD) |
| 5:34 pm | 1.00 | 4 N Waco | McLennan | HAM RADIO REPORT OF QUARTER-SIZED HAIL NEAR BOSQUEVILLE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WACO. (FWD) |
| 5:47 pm | 4.00 | 4 NNW Waco | McLennan | SOFTBALL SIZED HAIL BOSQUEVILLE TO NEAR WACO REGIONAL AIRPORT. (FWD) |
| 5:56 pm | 1.50 | 1 NNE Waco | McLennan | PING PONG SIZED HAIL REPORTED AT MCCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE MAIN CAMPUS. (FWD) |
| 6:06 pm | 1.75 | 3 NE Beverly Hills | McLennan | HAM RADIO REPORT OF GOLF BALL-SIZED HAIL AT THE BAYLOR CAMPUS. (FWD) |
| 6:17 pm | 4.50 | 2 S Bellmead | McLennan | 4.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 2 MILES EAST OF WACO. (FWD) |
| 6:22 pm | 2.75 | 1 SW Hallsburg | McLennan | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS BASEBALL-SIZED HAIL IN HALLSBURG. (FWD) |
| 6:44 pm | 1.50 | Mart | McLennan | HAM RADIO REPORT OF PING PONG BALL-SIZED HAIL IN MART. (FWD) |
| 7:08 pm | 1.75 | 5 SSW Evant | Lampasas | (FWD) |
| 8:47 pm | 1.75 | 3 NE Temple | Bell | QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL NEAR I-35 AT LOOP 363. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
637 signatures from 5 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; 234 were rated 100% and 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFWS | 217 | 79 | 69 | 22 | 3.00 in | 3:16 pm | 11:17 pm |
| KGRK | 177 | 60 | 58 | 13 | 2.75 in | 3:48 pm | 11:01 pm |
| KEWX | 141 | 55 | 52 | 16 | 3.00 in | 3:50 pm | 11:07 pm |
| KDYX | 92 | 35 | 30 | 16 | 3.50 in | 3:16 pm | 10:31 pm |
| KSJT | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1.25 in | 6:53 pm | 8:50 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.