Hail on Date

Hail in Oklahoma City on Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Oklahoma City on Thursday, June 15, 2023, between 8:28 pm and 9:20 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at Tuttle (Grady County) at 8:50 pm. NOAA radar flagged 780 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 223 rated a 100% chance of hail and 183 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

9spotter hail reports in the metro
2.00 inlargest reported, Tuttle
780radar hail signatures inside the metro, 223 rated 100%
2.75 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Oklahoma City counties with 780 radar hail signatures and 9 spotter hail reports on June 15, 2023 Oklahoma Cleveland Canadian Logan McClain Grady Lincoln 2.00 in, Tuttle
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 5 places in Cleveland, Grady and McClain counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
8:28 pm1.75TuttleGrady(OUN)
8:30 pm1.00TuttleGrady(OUN)
8:40 pm1.754 N Bridge CreekGradyRelayed via social media. (OUN)
8:49 pm2.00Bridge CreekGrady(OUN)
8:49 pm1.751 N Bridge CreekGradyHwy 4 and Fox Ln. (OUN)
8:50 pm2.00TuttleGradyTime estimated by radar. (OUN)
8:53 pm1.751 WSW NewcastleMcClain(OUN)
9:03 pm1.004 NW NormanClevelandReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN)
9:20 pm1.003 NE GoldsbyCleveland(OUN)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

780 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; 223 were rated 100% and 24 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KOKC266615601.75 in4:56 pm10:58 pm
KTLX1715145142.75 in4:34 pm10:58 pm
KVNX118453022.00 in4:40 pm10:59 pm
KFDR114403452.50 in4:55 pm10:53 pm
KINX82241832.25 in4:37 pm10:26 pm
KICT222000.75 in7:37 pm10:17 pm
KSRX70000.50 in9:20 pm10:29 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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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 Oklahoma City when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 7 counties (Oklahoma, Cleveland, Canadian, Logan, McClain, Grady and Lincoln 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.