Hail in Oklahoma City on Sunday, July 9, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 12 hail reports in Oklahoma City on Sunday, July 9, 2023, between 1:40 am and 3:34 am CDT, in 3 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 2.75 inches at 4 SW Oklahoma City (Oklahoma County) at 3:34 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,033 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 211 rated a 100% chance of hail and 289 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Canadian, Cleveland and Oklahoma counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Bethany 3 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Norman 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Oklahoma City 2 reports, up to 2.75 in
- Valley Brook 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Yukon 2 reports, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:40 am | 1.00 | 2 SSW Norman | Cleveland | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN) |
| 1:40 am | 1.25 | 2 SW Norman | Cleveland | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (OUN) |
| 1:57 am | 1.00 | 1 SE Norman | Cleveland | (OUN) |
| 2:53 am | 1.00 | 1 E Yukon | Canadian | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN) |
| 3:05 am | 1.00 | 3 SSE Yukon | Canadian | (OUN) |
| 3:15 am | 1.50 | 2 SSW Bethany | Oklahoma | Public called with report. (OUN) |
| 3:21 am | 1.75 | 3 SSE Bethany | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 3:28 am | 1.75 | 4 W Valley Brook | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
| 3:28 am | 1.25 | 7 W Valley Brook | Oklahoma | Will Rogers World Airport. (OUN) |
| 3:28 am | 2.50 | 5 SW Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | Report from mPING: Tennis Ball (2.50 in.). (OUN) |
| 3:28 am | 2.75 | 5 SSE Bethany | Oklahoma | Report from Facebook. Estimated golf ball to baseball. Time estimated from radar. (OUN) |
| 3:34 am | 2.75 | 4 SW Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | (OUN) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,033 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; 211 were rated 100% and 77 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 | 226 | 26 | 66 | 4 | 2.00 in | 12:46 am | 5:13 am |
| KVNX | 194 | 53 | 48 | 14 | 3.75 in | 12:48 am | 5:39 am |
| KFDR | 190 | 55 | 59 | 18 | 3.75 in | 12:43 am | 6:23 am |
| KTLX | 169 | 23 | 55 | 20 | 4.00 in | 12:42 am | 5:10 am |
| KINX | 156 | 48 | 55 | 20 | 4.00 in | 12:50 am | 5:40 am |
| KICT | 69 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:46 am | 6:18 am |
| KSRX | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 2:52 am | 6:14 am |
| KTUL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 3:03 am | 3:03 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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