Hail in San Antonio on Sunday, April 17, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 16 hail reports in San Antonio on Sunday, April 17, 2022, between 3:25 pm and 6:26 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 3.00 inches at Yancey 2 E (Medina County) at 6:26 pm. NOAA radar flagged 239 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 135 rated a 100% chance of hail and 150 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Bandera, Kendall and Medina counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Medina 6 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Hondo 4 reports, up to 3.00 in
- Comfort 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Bandera 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mico 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Rio Medina 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Yancey 2 E 1 report, up to 3.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:25 pm | 1.00 | Comfort | Kendall | REPORT OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (EWX) |
| 3:39 pm | 1.00 | Comfort | Kendall | PICTURE OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (EWX) |
| 3:40 pm | 1.00 | 3 NNW Medina | Bandera | TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL BETWEEN 3:40 AND 3:50 PM. (EWX) |
| 3:48 pm | 1.75 | Medina | Bandera | DIME TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (EWX) |
| 3:50 pm | 2.00 | 1 SSE Medina | Bandera | COCORAHS OBSERVER REPORTS 2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL. (EWX) |
| 3:50 pm | 2.50 | Medina | Bandera | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM MEDINA. PICTURE OF ESTIMATED 2.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN MEDINA. RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (EWX) |
| 3:53 pm | 1.00 | 5 E Medina | Bandera | HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (EWX) |
| 4:10 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Bandera | Bandera | STORM PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL FROM 1604-1600... NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL 1610-1613 AND PEA SIZE HAIL AGAIN 1619-1623. (EWX) |
| 4:19 pm | 2.50 | Medina | Bandera | PICTURE OF ESTIMATED 2.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN MEDINA. RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (EWX) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.00 | Mico | Medina | COCORAHS OBSERVER REPORTS DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL. (EWX) |
| 5:10 pm | 1.00 | Rio Medina | Medina | REPORT RECEIVED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. (EWX) |
| 5:43 pm | 3.00 | 5 NW Hondo | Medina | TENNIS BALL TO TEA CUP SIZE HAIL REPORTED NORTHWEST OF HONDO. (EWX) |
| 5:54 pm | 1.00 | Hondo | Medina | REPORT OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (EWX) |
| 5:55 pm | 1.25 | 2 E Hondo | Medina | (EWX) |
| 5:58 pm | 1.25 | 1 E Hondo | Medina | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF DOLLAR (1.25 IN.). (EWX) |
| 6:26 pm | 3.00 | Yancey 2 E | Medina | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM YANCEY. TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS THREE INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN YANCEY. (EWX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
239 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; 135 were rated 100% and 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KGRK | 74 | 46 | 49 | 10 | 2.75 in | 3:27 pm | 5:55 pm |
| KDFX | 62 | 33 | 37 | 16 | 3.00 in | 3:31 pm | 6:31 pm |
| KEWX | 59 | 29 | 36 | 19 | 4.00 in | 3:14 pm | 6:28 pm |
| KSJT | 32 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 3.00 in | 3:13 pm | 5:05 pm |
| KCRP | 12 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 3.50 in | 5:03 pm | 6:35 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 San Antonio when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 8 counties (Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina, Wilson, Atascosa and Bandera 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.