Hail in Oklahoma City on Thursday, May 5, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 17 hail reports in Oklahoma City on Thursday, May 5, 2022, between 10:00 am and 11:25 am CDT, in 3 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 N Guthrie (Logan County) at 11:25 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,424 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 235 rated a 100% chance of hail and 180 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Canadian, Logan and Oklahoma counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- The Village 4 reports, up to 1.00 in
- El Reno 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Edmond 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Guthrie 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Piedmont 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Del City 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lake Aluma 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Warr Acres 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Yukon 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 am | 1.00 | 1 S Del City | Oklahoma | SE 29TH AND SUNNYLANE RD. (OUN) |
| 10:03 am | 1.50 | El Reno | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 10:04 am | 1.75 | 2 SSW El Reno | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 10:15 am | 1.75 | 2 SE El Reno | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 10:18 am | 1.00 | 3 NNE Lake Aluma | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 10:30 am | 1.00 | 8 ENE Piedmont | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 10:44 am | 1.25 | 1 N Yukon | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 10:57 am | 1.00 | 3 NNW The Village | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:00 am | 1.00 | 5 ESE Piedmont | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:02 am | 1.00 | 2 NW The Village | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:04 am | 1.00 | 4 NW Warr Acres | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:04 am | 1.00 | 5 NW The Village | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:05 am | 1.00 | 5 WNW The Village | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:11 am | 1.00 | 5 NW Edmond | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:12 am | 1.75 | 6 W Edmond | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 11:25 am | 1.00 | Guthrie | Logan | (OUN) |
| 11:25 am | 1.75 | 1 N Guthrie | Logan | (OUN) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,424 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; 235 were rated 100% and 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOKC | 477 | 41 | 36 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:02 am | 11:55 am |
| KFDR | 253 | 57 | 49 | 3 | 2.25 in | 12:05 am | 11:49 am |
| KVNX | 250 | 51 | 30 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:02 am | 11:49 am |
| KTLX | 198 | 29 | 31 | 2 | 2.50 in | 1:23 am | 11:51 am |
| KINX | 150 | 40 | 23 | 3 | 2.25 in | 12:06 am | 11:51 am |
| KICT | 80 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2.25 in | 4:18 am | 11:40 am |
| KSRX | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 11:12 am | 11:28 am |
| KTUL | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:52 am | 11:10 am |
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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