Hail in Nashville on Saturday, March 27, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 16 hail reports in Nashville on Saturday, March 27, 2021, between 6:36 am and 7:24 pm CDT, in 5 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 2.25 inches at 3 NW Eagleville (Williamson County) at 7:03 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,780 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 474 rated a 100% chance of hail and 431 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Davidson, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson and Wilson counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Spring Hill 6 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Eagleville 2 reports, up to 2.25 in
- Lebanon 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Antioch 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Brentwood 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Columbia 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Murfreesboro 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Thompson's Statio 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Thompson's Station 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:36 am | 1.00 | Brentwood | Williamson | REPORTED AT 9475 SMITHSON LANE (OHX) |
| 6:48 am | 1.00 | Antioch | Davidson | REPORTED ON ANDERSON ROAD (OHX) |
| 7:09 am | 1.00 | Lebanon | Wilson | (OHX) |
| 7:15 am | 1.00 | 1 NE Lebanon | Wilson | (OHX) |
| 8:04 am | 1.00 | Spring Hill | Maury | (OHX) |
| 8:05 am | 1.00 | 3 NW Spring Hill | Maury | (OHX) |
| 8:05 am | 1.00 | Thompson's Station | Williamson | (OHX) |
| 6:41 pm | 1.25 | Columbia | Maury | (OHX) |
| 6:52 pm | 1.00 | 3 SE Spring Hill | Maury | (OHX) |
| 6:52 pm | 1.00 | Spring Hill | Maury | (OHX) |
| 6:53 pm | 1.50 | 5 E Spring Hill | Williamson | ON REED RD. IN BETHESDA. (OHX) |
| 6:55 pm | 1.75 | 2 E Spring Hill | Maury | (OHX) |
| 6:56 pm | 1.75 | 8 ESE Thompson's Statio | Williamson | GOLFBALL HAIL IN BETHESDA (OHX) |
| 7:03 pm | 2.25 | 3 NW Eagleville | Williamson | IN COLLEGE GROVE (OHX) |
| 7:05 pm | 1.50 | Eagleville | Rutherford | (OHX) |
| 7:24 pm | 1.25 | 6 SSE Murfreesboro | Rutherford | 1.25 HAIL ON BUZZARD BRANCH DRIVE IN CHRISTIANA (OHX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
2,780 signatures from 8 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; 474 were rated 100% and 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KBNA | 867 | 62 | 92 | 4 | 2.00 in | 4:53 am | 11:59 pm |
| KHTX | 487 | 107 | 80 | 14 | 3.50 in | 4:36 am | 11:59 pm |
| KOHX | 398 | 77 | 73 | 16 | 4.00 in | 4:38 am | 11:59 pm |
| KHPX | 381 | 88 | 67 | 12 | 3.25 in | 4:41 am | 11:58 pm |
| KPAH | 324 | 87 | 75 | 12 | 3.50 in | 4:30 am | 11:54 pm |
| KLVX | 205 | 42 | 30 | 1 | 2.75 in | 5:31 am | 11:58 pm |
| KGWX | 67 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2.25 in | 4:34 am | 7:41 pm |
| KVWX | 51 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1.00 in | 5:58 am | 11:40 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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