Hail in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Friday, April 28, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 13 hail reports in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Friday, April 28, 2023, between 2:50 pm and 4:43 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 10 SE Troy (Bell County) at 4:31 pm. NOAA radar flagged 275 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 221 rated a 100% chance of hail and 184 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Bell, Coryell, Falls and Lampasas counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Fort Gates 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Copperas Cove 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Gatesville 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Fort Hood 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Holland 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lampasas 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Rogers 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Rosebud 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Troy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:50 pm | 1.75 | 10 W Gatesville | Coryell | HAM RADIO SPOTTER REPORTS GOLF-BALL SIZED HAIL NEAR ARNETT. (FWD) |
| 3:06 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSE Fort Gates | Coryell | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER-SIZED HAIL 1 MILE SSE OF FORT GATES. (FWD) |
| 3:09 pm | 1.00 | Lampasas | Lampasas | HAM RADIO REPORT OF QUARTER-SIZED HAIL ON THE EAST SIDE OF LAMPASAS. (FWD) |
| 3:16 pm | 1.00 | 4 SSE Fort Gates | Coryell | QUARTER-SIZED HAIL REPORTED AT THE NORTH FORT HOOD FIRE STATION ON THE LONGHORN AND SHORTHORN AIRFIELDS. (FWD) |
| 3:24 pm | 1.25 | 1 SSE Gatesville | Coryell | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL 1 MILE SSE OF GATESVILLE. (FWD) |
| 3:33 pm | 1.00 | 1 WNW Copperas Cove | Coryell | HAM RADIO REPORT OF QUARTER-SIZED HAIL ON THE WEST SIDE OF COPPERAS COVE. (FWD) |
| 3:36 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Copperas Cove | Coryell | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 3:38 pm | 1.75 | 8 SE Fort Gates | Coryell | REPORT FROM MPING: GOLF BALL (1.75 IN.). (FWD) |
| 3:49 pm | 1.00 | 2 SSE Fort Hood | Bell | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 4:22 pm | 1.00 | 10 NNE Rogers | Bell | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
| 4:25 pm | 1.00 | 8 W Rosebud | Falls | HAM RADIO REPORT OF NICKEL TO QUARTER-SIZED HAIL AT 447 FM 1772 WEST OF ROSEBUD. (FWD) |
| 4:31 pm | 1.75 | 10 SE Troy | Bell | (FWD) |
| 4:43 pm | 1.00 | Holland | Bell | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
275 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; 221 were rated 100% and 70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEWX | 66 | 56 | 49 | 21 | 2.75 in | 2:18 pm | 4:48 pm |
| KFWS | 64 | 53 | 45 | 17 | 2.75 in | 2:23 pm | 7:08 pm |
| KGRK | 61 | 47 | 39 | 10 | 2.25 in | 2:19 pm | 7:25 pm |
| KDYX | 58 | 44 | 41 | 22 | 3.00 in | 2:33 pm | 7:00 pm |
| KSJT | 26 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 1.75 in | 2:21 pm | 3:16 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.