Hail in Lubbock on Sunday, May 1, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Lubbock on Sunday, May 1, 2022, between 5:30 pm and 9:02 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at 2 N O'donnell (Lynn County) at 8:55 pm. NOAA radar flagged 211 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 103 rated a 100% chance of hail and 88 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Hockley, Lubbock and Lynn counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Levelland 4 reports, up to 2.75 in
- O'donnell 4 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Lubbock 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:30 pm | 1.50 | Levelland | Hockley | PICTURE OF HAIL ON TWITTER. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LUB) |
| 5:30 pm | 2.75 | 2 W Levelland | Hockley | TIME AND LOCATION ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. REPORT RELAYED FROM EM. (LUB) |
| 5:35 pm | 1.75 | 2 NW Levelland | Hockley | TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR (LUB) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.00 | 5 NW Lubbock | Lubbock | PICTURE OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT ERSKINE AND DOVER IN NW LUBBOCK. (LUB) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.50 | 10 NNE Levelland | Hockley | PICTURE OF 1-1.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN WITHARRAL... TEXAS. HAIL FELL BETWEEN 4:45 AND 4:50 PM. (LUB) |
| 8:55 pm | 3.00 | 2 N O'donnell | Lynn | SEVERAL PHOTOS OF HAIL AROUND 3 INCH IN DIAMETER. TIME WAS ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LUB) |
| 8:58 pm | 2.00 | 1 NNW O'donnell | Lynn | (LUB) |
| 9:01 pm | 1.75 | 5 ENE O'donnell | Lynn | MOSTLY 1 TO 1.25 INCH DIAMETER HAIL... WITH LARGEST GOLF BALL SIZE (LUB) |
| 9:02 pm | 2.50 | 1 NNW O'donnell | Lynn | (LUB) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
211 signatures from 7 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; 103 were rated 100% and 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMAF | 56 | 29 | 26 | 8 | 3.25 in | 5:07 pm | 9:49 pm |
| KLBB | 56 | 30 | 27 | 19 | 4.00 in | 5:11 pm | 9:41 pm |
| KAMA | 38 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2.25 in | 5:09 pm | 9:46 pm |
| KFDX | 27 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2.50 in | 5:08 pm | 9:47 pm |
| KSJT | 19 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 2.50 in | 5:31 pm | 9:46 pm |
| KDYX | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2.00 in | 5:35 pm | 9:51 pm |
| KFDR | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 6:25 pm | 6:33 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 Lubbock when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 4 counties (Lubbock, Crosby, Lynn and Hockley 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.