Hail on Date

Hail in Lincoln on Tuesday, July 2, 2024

The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Lincoln on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, between 11:29 am and 11:40 am CDT, in 1 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 1.25 inches at 6 WNW Lincoln (Lancaster County) at 11:36 am. NOAA radar flagged 185 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 55 rated a 100% chance of hail and 36 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

5spotter hail reports in the metro
1.25 inlargest reported, 6 WNW Lincoln
185radar hail signatures inside the metro, 55 rated 100%
1.75 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Lincoln counties with 185 radar hail signatures and 5 spotter hail reports on July 2, 2024 Lancaster Seward 1.25 in, 6 WNW Lincoln
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 3 places in Lancaster County, named as the National Weather Service described them.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
11:29 am1.005 ENE Pleasant DaleLancasterHail slightly larger than a quarter... lasted 2-4 minutes. (OAX)
11:35 am1.005 W LincolnLancasterReport from mPING. (OAX)
11:35 am1.006 SE MalcolmLancasterReport from mPING. (OAX)
11:36 am1.256 WNW LincolnLancaster(OAX)
11:40 am1.005 NNW LincolnLancaster(OAX)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

185 signatures from 3 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; 55 were rated 100% and 0 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KTWX74251301.50 in12:01 am12:05 pm
KUEX61201001.75 in12:00 am12:08 pm
KOAX50101301.75 in12:00 am12:05 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 Lincoln when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 2 counties (Lancaster and Seward 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.