Hail in Little Rock on Wednesday, June 14, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Little Rock on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, between 6:25 am and 5:03 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 1 NNE Ward (Lonoke County) at 6:50 am. NOAA radar flagged 467 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 128 rated a 100% chance of hail and 152 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Faulkner, Lonoke and Saline counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- El Paso 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Haskell 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Austin 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Benton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Grape 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Holland 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Vilonia 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Ward 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Woodlawn Addition 1 report, up to 1.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:25 am | 1.50 | 2 S Holland | Faulkner | (LZK) |
| 6:30 am | 1.75 | 3 ENE Vilonia | Faulkner | (LZK) |
| 6:34 am | 1.00 | 4 SSW El Paso | Faulkner | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LZK) |
| 6:37 am | 2.00 | 3 WSW El Paso | Faulkner | Report via social media. (LZK) |
| 6:45 am | 1.75 | 1 NW Woodlawn Addition | Lonoke | (LZK) |
| 6:50 am | 1.50 | Austin | Lonoke | (LZK) |
| 6:50 am | 2.00 | 1 NNE Ward | Lonoke | *Delayed Report* Social media picture of potentially hen egg sized hail in Ward... size is estimated... no scale was provided in the pictures. Time is estimated from ra (LZK) |
| 4:57 pm | 1.00 | 4 NW Haskell | Saline | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LZK) |
| 4:58 pm | 1.00 | 5 SW Grape | Saline | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LZK) |
| 5:01 pm | 1.25 | 3 N Haskell | Saline | *Delayed Report* Social media picture of half dollar sized hail taken from the Haskell exit (hwy 67) off I-30. Time estimated from radar. (LZK) |
| 5:03 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW Benton | Saline | Shared with NWS Forecasters via cell phone picture. (LZK) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
467 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; 128 were rated 100% and 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KSRX | 198 | 63 | 75 | 30 | 4.00 in | 12:20 am | 7:14 pm |
| KLZK | 147 | 40 | 51 | 23 | 4.00 in | 12:25 am | 7:12 pm |
| KNQA | 116 | 21 | 22 | 11 | 4.00 in | 12:34 am | 7:17 pm |
| KSGF | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2.75 in | 4:03 am | 7:10 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.