Hail in San Antonio on Thursday, June 8, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in San Antonio on Thursday, June 8, 2023, between 1:56 pm and 2:35 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 ENE Bulverde (Comal County) at 2:02 pm. NOAA radar flagged 152 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 73 rated a 100% chance of hail and 65 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Bexar, Comal and Guadalupe counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Bulverde 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Selma 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Garden Ridge 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Live Oak 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Timberwood Park 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Universal City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:56 pm | 1.00 | 2 NNE Bulverde | Comal | Frequent dime size hail increased to quarter size in the past couple of minutes in Bulverde. (EWX) |
| 2:02 pm | 1.75 | 1 ENE Bulverde | Comal | Golf ball sized hail at 281 and 1863 per NWS employee. (EWX) |
| 2:21 pm | 1.00 | 2 WNW Selma | Bexar | Estimated Quarter size hail at Rolling Meadows elementary school. (EWX) |
| 2:24 pm | 1.50 | 6 SE Timberwood Park | Bexar | Pictures of Estimated Ping Pong ball size hail near TPC parkway and the golf course via social media. (EWX) |
| 2:30 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Universal City | Bexar | NWS employee reports quarter size hail in Universal City. Time estimated from radar. (EWX) |
| 2:30 pm | 1.00 | Garden Ridge | Comal | Delayed report: Twitter photo of quarter size hail. (EWX) |
| 2:32 pm | 1.25 | 3 NW Live Oak | Bexar | Picture of estimated half dollar size hail at toepperwein and Nagadoches. (EWX) |
| 2:35 pm | 1.25 | 1 N Selma | Guadalupe | Hail up to Half Dollar sized in Selma per photos on social media. Location marker is approximate. (EWX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
152 signatures from 4 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; 73 were rated 100% and 22 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 | 60 | 31 | 23 | 5 | 2.50 in | 12:45 pm | 3:17 pm |
| KEWX | 45 | 24 | 26 | 12 | 3.75 in | 12:46 pm | 3:15 pm |
| KCRP | 27 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2.75 in | 2:04 pm | 3:15 pm |
| KSJT | 20 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:47 pm | 1:31 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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