Hail in Lubbock on Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 26 hail reports in Lubbock on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, between 4:03 pm and 8:09 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 5.00 inches at 7 NE Whiteface (Hockley County) at 6:25 pm. NOAA radar flagged 484 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 335 rated a 100% chance of hail and 297 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 11 places in Hockley, Lubbock and Lynn counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Pep 6 reports, up to 4.50 in
- Whiteface 4 reports, up to 5.00 in
- Wolfforth 4 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Levelland 3 reports, up to 3.25 in
- Tahoka 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Anton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- New Home 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Smyer 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Sundown 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Whitharral 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Wilson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:03 pm | 1.25 | 3 S Sundown | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 4:23 pm | 1.75 | Pep | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 4:56 pm | 2.00 | 2 SE Pep | Hockley | Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 4:57 pm | 3.00 | 4 ESE Pep | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 5:25 pm | 1.75 | 4 N Whitharral | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 5:26 pm | 1.25 | 6 WSW New Home | Lynn | (LUB) |
| 5:51 pm | 1.00 | Anton | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 5:56 pm | 2.75 | 6 S Pep | Hockley | Report from mPING: Baseball (2.75 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:02 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Pep | Hockley | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:03 pm | 3.25 | 8 NE Whiteface | Hockley | Report from mPING: Baseball+ (3.25 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:05 pm | 3.00 | 8 NE Whiteface | Hockley | Report from mPING: Tea Cup (3.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:06 pm | 1.75 | 1 WNW Tahoka | Lynn | (LUB) |
| 6:09 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Tahoka | Lynn | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:14 pm | 4.50 | 6 SSE Pep | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Tahoka | Lynn | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:25 pm | 5.00 | 7 NE Whiteface | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 6:28 pm | 1.00 | 5 E Whiteface | Hockley | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:33 pm | 3.25 | 5 W Levelland | Hockley | Report from mPING: Baseball+ (3.25 in.). (LUB) |
| 6:39 pm | 3.00 | 3 WNW Levelland | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 6:44 pm | 2.00 | 1 NNW Levelland | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 7:06 pm | 1.50 | 3 S Smyer | Hockley | (LUB) |
| 7:23 pm | 1.25 | 1 N Wolfforth | Lubbock | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (LUB) |
| 7:35 pm | 1.75 | 1 WSW Wolfforth | Lubbock | (LUB) |
| 7:37 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Wolfforth | Lubbock | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB) |
| 7:40 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Wolfforth | Lubbock | (LUB) |
| 8:09 pm | 1.75 | 2 WNW Wilson | Lynn | (LUB) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
484 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; 335 were rated 100% and 163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLBB | 145 | 81 | 88 | 43 | 4.00 in | 2:42 pm | 8:19 pm |
| KMAF | 119 | 86 | 73 | 41 | 4.00 in | 2:40 pm | 8:28 pm |
| KFDX | 116 | 88 | 75 | 43 | 4.00 in | 2:44 pm | 8:05 pm |
| KAMA | 92 | 70 | 52 | 29 | 4.00 in | 2:46 pm | 8:24 pm |
| KSJT | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4.00 in | 6:23 pm | 6:48 pm |
| KFDR | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 4:52 pm | 5:05 pm |
| KDYX | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4.00 in | 4:56 pm | 6:53 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.
Check an address for May 28, 2024
See, free, how many hail signatures NOAA recorded within 1, 3 and 5 miles of one address that day and the nearest spotter report. The full report is $19.
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.