Hail in San Antonio on Friday, April 28, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 21 hail reports in San Antonio on Friday, April 28, 2023, between 5:28 pm and 7:00 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at Bandera (Bandera County) at 5:28 pm. NOAA radar flagged 391 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 253 rated a 100% chance of hail and 161 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 12 places in Bandera, Bexar and Kendall counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Bandera 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Grey Forest 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Helotes 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Pipe Creek 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- San Antonio 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- The Dominion 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Albert & Bessie K 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Comfort 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Hollywood Park 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Leon Springs 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Olmos Park 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Shavano Park 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:28 pm | 2.00 | Bandera | Bandera | EGG SIZE HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (EWX) |
| 5:30 pm | 1.75 | Bandera | Bandera | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM BANDERA. TRAINED STORM SPOTTER REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN DOWNTOWN BANDERA AT 530 PM CDT. (EWX) |
| 5:40 pm | 1.00 | Bandera | Bandera | (EWX) |
| 5:41 pm | 1.00 | Comfort | Kendall | (EWX) |
| 5:42 pm | 1.50 | Pipe Creek | Bandera | TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (EWX) |
| 5:49 pm | 1.00 | 3 S Pipe Creek | Bandera | EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTS QUARTER SIZED HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF PIPE CREEK. (EWX) |
| 6:07 pm | 1.00 | 2 ENE Albert & Bessie K | Kendall | INTERSECTION OF DEEP HOLLOW AND HIGHWAY 46. (EWX) |
| 6:13 pm | 1.00 | 2 N Helotes | Bexar | REPORT FROM MPING QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (EWX) |
| 6:13 pm | 1.00 | Grey Forest | Bexar | FACEBOOK REPORT OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL. (EWX) |
| 6:16 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Leon Springs | Bexar | (EWX) |
| 6:18 pm | 1.10 | Helotes | Bexar | (EWX) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | Grey Forest | Bexar | NICKLE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. (EWX) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | 2 S The Dominion | Bexar | REPORT FROM MPING QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (EWX) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW The Dominion | Bexar | PUBLIC REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT THE DOMINION SHOPPING CENTER. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (EWX) |
| 6:23 pm | 1.75 | Grey Forest | Bexar | GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN GREY FOREST BY A SHERRIFFS DEPUTY. REPORT RELAYED VIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. (EWX) |
| 6:24 pm | 1.25 | Helotes | Bexar | (EWX) |
| 6:25 pm | 1.00 | 3 WNW Shavano Park | Bexar | UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL NEAR THE RIM. (EWX) |
| 6:31 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Hollywood Park | Bexar | REPORT FROM MPING QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (EWX) |
| 6:45 pm | 1.00 | Olmos Park | Bexar | UP TO 1 INCH HAIL IN OLMOS PARK. (EWX) |
| 6:59 pm | 1.00 | 1 ENE San Antonio | Bexar | REPORT FROM MPING QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (EWX) |
| 7:00 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE San Antonio | Bexar | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO. (EWX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
391 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; 253 were rated 100% and 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEWX | 124 | 81 | 58 | 14 | 4.00 in | 3:39 pm | 7:36 pm |
| KGRK | 92 | 59 | 31 | 9 | 2.50 in | 3:51 pm | 7:35 pm |
| KDFX | 85 | 53 | 30 | 7 | 3.50 in | 3:42 pm | 7:45 pm |
| KCRP | 53 | 28 | 17 | 1 | 2.00 in | 6:14 pm | 7:38 pm |
| KSJT | 37 | 32 | 25 | 11 | 3.75 in | 4:10 pm | 6:00 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.