Hail in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Friday, June 16, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Friday, June 16, 2023, between 6:30 pm and 8:10 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 3.25 inches at Lorena (McLennan County) at 7:31 pm. NOAA radar flagged 809 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 595 rated a 100% chance of hail and 515 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Coryell, Falls, Lampasas and McLennan counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Beverly Hills 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Golinda 2 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Copperas Cove 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Lampasas 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Lorena 1 report, up to 3.25 in
- Lott 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Northcrest 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Robinson 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Ross 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 pm | 1.50 | Ross | McLennan | ping pong ball sized hail reported from social media picture. time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 6:40 pm | 1.25 | 2 N Northcrest | McLennan | Social media report of quarters to half dollar sized hail in Elm Mott. time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 7:18 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Beverly Hills | McLennan | Broadcast media reports quarter sized hail falling at news station. Time estimated by radar and report on social media. (FWD) |
| 7:21 pm | 2.00 | Robinson | McLennan | 2 inch hail seen on social media near Robinson. time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 7:22 pm | 1.50 | Lampasas | Lampasas | social media report of ping pong sized hail near Lampasas. times estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 7:30 pm | 1.75 | 3 SE Beverly Hills | McLennan | Social media report of golf ball hail in Robinson... Tx. Time given in report. (FWD) |
| 7:31 pm | 3.25 | Lorena | McLennan | social media picture of larger than baseball (approx. 3.25-3.5 inch) hail in Lorena. time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 7:35 pm | 1.25 | 3 NW Golinda | McLennan | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 7:40 pm | 1.75 | 9 N Copperas Cove | Coryell | Social media photo. (FWD) |
| 7:45 pm | 2.50 | 4 WSW Golinda | Falls | Delayed report. NWS employee reports measured 2.5 inch hail at parents house. time given in report. (FWD) |
| 8:10 pm | 1.75 | 5 W Lott | Falls | HAM reports golf ball hail on CR 478 in Durango. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
809 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; 595 were rated 100% and 102 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 | 257 | 186 | 163 | 42 | 2.75 in | 5:51 pm | 9:37 pm |
| KDYX | 205 | 155 | 135 | 30 | 2.75 in | 5:52 pm | 9:45 pm |
| KEWX | 160 | 114 | 102 | 23 | 2.75 in | 5:53 pm | 9:39 pm |
| KGRK | 154 | 113 | 92 | 7 | 2.50 in | 5:53 pm | 9:35 pm |
| KSJT | 33 | 27 | 23 | 0 | 1.75 in | 6:05 pm | 8:09 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.