Hail in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Sunday, May 12, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Killeen, Temple and Waco on Sunday, May 12, 2024, between 8:33 am and 9:27 am CDT, in 3 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 2 SSE Temple (Bell County) at 9:20 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,127 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 402 rated a 100% chance of hail and 341 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Bell, Coryell and Falls counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Belton 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Temple 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Copperas Cove 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Harker Heights 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Killeen 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lott 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:33 am | 1.00 | 2 E Copperas Cove | Coryell | Delayed Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FWD) |
| 8:43 am | 1.00 | Killeen | Bell | Delayed Report - Quarter hail reported on the south side of Killeen. (FWD) |
| 8:46 am | 1.50 | 7 ESE Lott | Falls | delayed report - ping pong size hail reported in Cedar Spring. (FWD) |
| 8:50 am | 1.00 | Harker Heights | Bell | Delayed Report - Penny to Quarter hail reported in Harker Heights. (FWD) |
| 9:06 am | 1.75 | Belton | Bell | Delayed Report - Hail up to golf balls reported in Belton. (FWD) |
| 9:07 am | 1.25 | 1 E Belton | Bell | Delayed Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (FWD) |
| 9:08 am | 2.00 | 3 SSW Belton | Bell | Delayed Report - Photo of golf ball to egg size hail from Belton. (FWD) |
| 9:20 am | 2.00 | 2 SSE Temple | Bell | Photo of 2 inch hail in south Temple - delayed report. (FWD) |
| 9:27 am | 1.75 | 4 NNE Temple | Bell | Delayed report - Hail up to golf ball size reported in Temple. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,127 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; 402 were rated 100% and 116 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 | 335 | 117 | 97 | 33 | 4.00 in | 5:44 am | 9:11 pm |
| KEWX | 331 | 112 | 98 | 35 | 4.00 in | 5:57 am | 9:12 pm |
| KGRK | 303 | 96 | 81 | 32 | 4.00 in | 6:04 am | 9:11 pm |
| KDYX | 129 | 61 | 52 | 14 | 4.00 in | 6:05 am | 12:09 pm |
| KSJT | 29 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 2.75 in | 6:06 am | 9:06 am |
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.
Check an address for May 12, 2024
See, free, how many hail signatures NOAA recorded within 1, 3 and 5 miles of one address that day and the nearest spotter report. The full report is $19.
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.