Hail in Little Rock on Saturday, April 15, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Little Rock on Saturday, April 15, 2023, between 6:53 pm and 7:12 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at 2 NNW Austin (Lonoke County) at 7:12 pm. NOAA radar flagged 253 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 126 rated a 100% chance of hail and 91 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Austin 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Springhill 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Bryant 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Hillcrest 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Holly Springs 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- South Bend 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Ward 1 report, up to 1.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:53 pm | 1.00 | 1 NE Bryant | Saline | (LZK) |
| 6:53 pm | 1.00 | 2 N Springhill | Saline | (LZK) |
| 6:53 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSE Holly Springs | Pulaski | (LZK) |
| 6:59 pm | 1.00 | 1 ESE Springhill | Saline | (LZK) |
| 7:02 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSW Austin | Lonoke | (LZK) |
| 7:03 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Hillcrest | Pulaski | (LZK) |
| 7:10 pm | 1.00 | 1 ENE Ward | Lonoke | (LZK) |
| 7:12 pm | 1.00 | 1 WNW South Bend | Lonoke | (LZK) |
| 7:12 pm | 1.50 | 2 NNW Austin | Lonoke | (LZK) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
253 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; 126 were rated 100% and 8 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 | 114 | 43 | 37 | 5 | 2.25 in | 5:27 am | 8:09 pm |
| KSRX | 92 | 55 | 38 | 2 | 2.00 in | 5:16 pm | 8:00 pm |
| KNQA | 47 | 28 | 16 | 1 | 2.00 in | 5:37 am | 8:03 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 Little Rock when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 4 counties (Pulaski, Saline, Faulkner and Lonoke 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.