Hail in Little Rock on Saturday, October 15, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Little Rock on Saturday, October 15, 2022, between 5:01 pm and 9:31 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 3 S Young Subdivision (Lonoke County) at 5:09 pm. NOAA radar flagged 508 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 275 rated a 100% chance of hail and 189 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 10 places in Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Young Subdivision 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Alexander 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Benton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Cabot 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Crows 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Fairview 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Of Cabot 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Paron 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Soda Valley 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Springhill 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:01 pm | 1.00 | 3 S Young Subdivision | Lonoke | TRAINED STORM SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL JUST EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 31 AND 38 INTERSECTION. (LZK) |
| 5:09 pm | 2.00 | 3 S Young Subdivision | Lonoke | A TRAINED STORM SPOTTER MEASURED SPIKY HAIL THAT WAS 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER. (LZK) |
| 5:48 pm | 1.50 | 2 SE Cabot | Lonoke | (LZK) |
| 5:56 pm | 1.75 | 4 E Of Cabot | Lonoke | PICTURES OF GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL SHARED TO US VIA SOCIAL MEDIA EAST OF CABOT... SOUTH OF AUSTIN. (LZK) |
| 6:19 pm | 1.25 | 2 WNW Soda Valley | Faulkner | (LZK) |
| 6:45 pm | 1.50 | 3 NNW Crows | Saline | (LZK) |
| 7:04 pm | 1.50 | 2 E Fairview | Lonoke | 1.5 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED VIA MPING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40 NEAR THE HIGHWAY 31 AND 236 INTERSECTION. (LZK) |
| 8:11 pm | 1.75 | Paron | Saline | GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN PARON... ON HIGHWAY 9 BY HAM RADIO OPERATORS. (LZK) |
| 9:23 pm | 1.25 | 2 N Springhill | Saline | (LZK) |
| 9:25 pm | 1.25 | Alexander | Pulaski | (LZK) |
| 9:31 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Benton | Saline | SEVERAL CAR WINDSHIELDS WERE DAMAGED. (LZK) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
508 signatures from 4 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; 275 were rated 100% and 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLZK | 258 | 133 | 114 | 27 | 3.50 in | 7:16 am | 11:01 pm |
| KSRX | 153 | 88 | 49 | 5 | 2.25 in | 3:23 pm | 11:10 pm |
| KNQA | 94 | 54 | 26 | 0 | 1.75 in | 4:25 pm | 10:51 pm |
| KSGF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:21 pm | 7:28 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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