Hail in Omaha on Saturday, April 23, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Omaha on Saturday, April 23, 2022, between 4:57 am and 5:55 am CDT, in 4 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Glenwood (Mills, IA) at 5:09 am. NOAA radar flagged 187 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 105 rated a 100% chance of hail and 80 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Douglas, NE, Mills, IA, Pottawattamie, IA and Washington, NE, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Bennington 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Boys Town 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Glenwood 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Fort Calhoun 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Walnut 1 report, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:57 am | 1.00 | 3 W Boys Town | Douglas, NE | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (OAX) |
| 5:03 am | 1.00 | 4 S Bennington | Douglas, NE | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (OAX) |
| 5:05 am | 1.00 | 4 NNW Boys Town | Douglas, NE | AT 156TH AND FORT. (OAX) |
| 5:09 am | 1.75 | Glenwood | Mills, IA | DELAYED REPORT RELAYED BY BROADCAST MEDIA. TIME BASED ON RADAR. (OAX) |
| 5:10 am | 1.00 | Glenwood | Mills, IA | TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (OAX) |
| 5:11 am | 1.25 | Fort Calhoun | Washington, NE | PICUTRE FROM SOCIAL MEDIA... ESTIMATED TIME BASED ON RADAR. (OAX) |
| 5:12 am | 1.00 | 3 SSE Bennington | Douglas, NE | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (OAX) |
| 5:55 am | 1.00 | Walnut | Pottawattamie, IA | SPOTTER CALLED WFO DMX REPORTING 1" HAIL IN WALNUT. (OAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
187 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; 105 were rated 100% and 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOAX | 93 | 42 | 35 | 1 | 2.00 in | 4:34 am | 4:52 pm |
| KDMX | 65 | 44 | 35 | 1 | 2.00 in | 4:49 am | 4:25 pm |
| KUEX | 14 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1.75 in | 4:36 am | 5:09 am |
| KFSD | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 5:08 am | 5:46 am |
| KTWX | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1.75 in | 4:47 am | 5:02 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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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.