Hail in Oklahoma City on Sunday, February 26, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Oklahoma City on Sunday, February 26, 2023, between 8:55 pm and 9:36 pm CST, in 3 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at Bridge Creek (Grady County) at 9:05 pm. NOAA radar flagged 80 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 17 rated a 100% chance of hail and 19 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Grady, McClain and Oklahoma counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Blanchard 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Bridge Creek 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Chickasha 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Newcastle 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Stella 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Standard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:55 pm | 1.00 | Chickasha | Grady | (OUN) |
| 9:05 pm | 1.25 | Blanchard | McClain | TIME IS RADAR ESTIMATED. (OUN) |
| 9:05 pm | 1.50 | Bridge Creek | Grady | TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR. (OUN) |
| 9:12 pm | 1.00 | Newcastle | McClain | (OUN) |
| 9:36 pm | 1.00 | 6 NNW Stella | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
80 signatures from 5 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; 17 were rated 100% and 0 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 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1.25 in | 8:45 pm | 9:42 pm |
| KVNX | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 8:44 pm | 9:54 pm |
| KFDR | 18 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1.25 in | 8:47 pm | 9:45 pm |
| KTLX | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1.50 in | 8:43 pm | 9:15 pm |
| KINX | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 in | 9:05 pm | 9:44 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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