Hail in San Antonio on Monday, April 1, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in San Antonio on Monday, April 1, 2024, between 10:00 pm and 10:31 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 SSW Rio Medina (Medina County) at 10:01 pm. NOAA radar flagged 149 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 59 rated a 100% chance of hail and 87 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Bexar and Medina counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Rio Medina 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Sea World 3 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Leon Valley 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Olmos 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 pm | 1.25 | 3 E Rio Medina | Medina | (EWX) |
| 10:00 pm | 1.25 | 3 WSW Rio Medina | Medina | (EWX) |
| 10:01 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSW Rio Medina | Medina | Picture shared on social media of 1 to 1.75 inch hail in Rio Medina. (EWX) |
| 10:05 pm | 1.25 | 3 W Rio Medina | Medina | Cocorahs reported one to one and a quarter inch hail. (EWX) |
| 10:13 pm | 1.00 | 5 E Rio Medina | Bexar | Hail via Twitter from public of 1 inch diameter hail 7 mi NE of Castroville. (EWX) |
| 10:15 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Sea World | Bexar | Public Report of 1 inch hail 1 mile SW of Sea World. (EWX) |
| 10:19 pm | 1.00 | 2 SSW Sea World | Bexar | Report of hail up to quarter size with photo via Twitter at Potranco and 1604. (EWX) |
| 10:19 pm | 1.50 | Leon Valley | Bexar | Ping pong sized hail reported in Leon Valley from trained spotter. (EWX) |
| 10:20 pm | 1.00 | 4 ESE Sea World | Bexar | A trained spotter reported one quarter inch hail. (EWX) |
| 10:30 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Olmos Park | Bexar | Social media picture of hail at the intersection of Blanco Rd and Fresno St. (EWX) |
| 10:31 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Leon Valley | Bexar | Report from mPING Quarter (1.00 in.). (EWX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
149 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; 59 were rated 100% and 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDFX | 47 | 24 | 34 | 10 | 4.00 in | 8:37 pm | 11:02 pm |
| KEWX | 46 | 16 | 26 | 9 | 3.25 in | 8:36 pm | 11:20 pm |
| KGRK | 40 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 2.50 in | 8:23 pm | 11:17 pm |
| KSJT | 16 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1.25 in | 8:20 pm | 9:38 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.