Hail in Nashville on Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 12 hail reports in Nashville on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, between 2:20 pm and 7:07 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 2.50 inches at 7 NNE Springfield (Robertson County) at 3:15 pm. NOAA radar flagged 4,289 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 1,069 rated a 100% chance of hail and 922 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford and Sumner counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- White House 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Cross Plains 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Ashland City 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Cedar Hill 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Gallatin 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Inglewood 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Murfreesboro 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Portland 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Springfield 1 report, up to 2.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:20 pm | 1.00 | 8 E Ashland City | Davidson | Twitter photo showed hail up to quarter size in the Beaman Park area. (OHX) |
| 2:57 pm | 2.00 | Cedar Hill | Robertson | Facebook report of 2 inch diameter hail in Cedar Hill. (OHX) |
| 3:15 pm | 2.50 | 7 NNE Springfield | Robertson | Facebook report of tennis ball size hail in the Youngville area. (OHX) |
| 3:28 pm | 1.00 | 2 N Cross Plains | Robertson | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OHX) |
| 3:54 pm | 1.25 | 1 SSE Portland | Sumner | (OHX) |
| 5:00 pm | 1.75 | 5 WSW Cross Plains | Robertson | Facebook report of estimated golf ball size hail along Baggett Road east of Springfield. (OHX) |
| 5:09 pm | 1.00 | 1 NE White House | Robertson | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OHX) |
| 5:15 pm | 2.00 | 2 N White House | Robertson | (OHX) |
| 5:17 pm | 1.00 | 1 NE White House | Robertson | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OHX) |
| 5:43 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Gallatin | Sumner | Estimated quarter size hail. (OHX) |
| 6:03 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSE Inglewood | Davidson | (OHX) |
| 7:07 pm | 1.00 | 7 S Murfreesboro | Rutherford | Estimated quarter size hail. (OHX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
4,289 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; 1,069 were rated 100% and 171 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 | 1,439 | 263 | 268 | 25 | 2.75 in | 5:13 am | 11:58 pm |
| KHPX | 743 | 215 | 169 | 46 | 4.00 in | 5:33 am | 11:56 pm |
| KHTX | 580 | 171 | 143 | 35 | 3.75 in | 5:27 am | 11:53 pm |
| KLVX | 405 | 93 | 63 | 6 | 3.00 in | 5:36 am | 11:57 pm |
| KOHX | 376 | 113 | 106 | 23 | 3.75 in | 5:33 am | 11:56 pm |
| KPAH | 349 | 101 | 82 | 15 | 3.75 in | 5:27 am | 11:57 pm |
| KVWX | 320 | 96 | 78 | 20 | 4.00 in | 5:36 am | 11:54 pm |
| KGWX | 77 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 2.00 in | 5:00 pm | 11:52 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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