Hail on Date

Hail in Omaha on Tuesday, April 12, 2022

The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Omaha on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, between 7:18 pm and 9:25 pm CDT, in 5 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 1.00 inches at Malvern (Mills, IA) at 9:25 pm. NOAA radar flagged 251 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 212 rated a 100% chance of hail and 199 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

7spotter hail reports in the metro
1.00 inlargest reported, Malvern
251radar hail signatures inside the metro, 212 rated 100%
2.50 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Omaha counties with 251 radar hail signatures and 7 spotter hail reports on April 12, 2022 Douglas Sarpy Cass Saunders Washington Pottawattamie Mills Harrison 1.00 in, Malvern
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 6 places in Cass, NE, Harrison, IA, Mills, IA, Sarpy, NE and Saunders, NE, 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
7:18 pm1.00LoganHarrison, IAPHOTO REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (OAX)
7:25 pm1.002 S WahooSaunders, NE(OAX)
7:36 pm1.001 S WahooSaunders, NEREPORT FROM MPING. (OAX)
8:36 pm1.001 W Offutt AfbSarpy, NEREPORT FROM MPING. (OAX)
8:57 pm1.00PlattsmouthCass, NEPHOTO REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (OAX)
8:58 pm1.002 E MurrayCass, NEPHOTO REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (OAX)
9:25 pm1.00MalvernMills, IAPUBLIC REPORT OF 1 INCH HAIL A IN MALVERN... IA. (OAX)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

251 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; 212 were rated 100% and 10 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KOAX95717552.50 in6:12 pm9:45 pm
KDMX72635501.75 in5:16 pm9:35 pm
KUEX52474452.25 in6:49 pm8:59 pm
KTWX22211901.75 in8:07 pm9:38 pm
KFSD1010601.25 in7:20 pm8:28 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 Omaha when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 8 counties (the counties of Douglas, NE, Sarpy, NE, Cass, NE, Saunders, NE, Washington, NE, Pottawattamie, IA, Mills, IA and Harrison, IA). 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.