Hail in St. Louis on Sunday, March 30, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in St. Louis on Sunday, March 30, 2025, between 1:35 pm and 2:34 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 12 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at 2 E New Athens (St. Clair, IL) at 2:34 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,213 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 230 rated a 100% chance of hail and 230 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Monroe, IL, St. Charles, MO and St. Clair, IL, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Columbia 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- New Athens 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Belleville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Hecker 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Millstadt 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Orchard Farms 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:35 pm | 1.50 | 1 ESE Columbia | Monroe, IL | Largest hail between 1 and 1.5 inches in diameter. (LSX) |
| 1:36 pm | 1.00 | Columbia | Monroe, IL | quarter sized hail in columbia. (LSX) |
| 1:39 pm | 1.50 | 2 E Columbia | Monroe, IL | public report 1.5 NE of columbia proper. (LSX) |
| 1:42 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Millstadt | St. Clair, IL | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LSX) |
| 1:49 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Belleville | St. Clair, IL | Hail ranging in size from dimes to quarters fell for nearly 6 mins. (LSX) |
| 2:22 pm | 1.00 | 5 SE Hecker | Monroe, IL | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LSX) |
| 2:22 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Orchard Farms | St. Charles, MO | Pea to quarter size hail. Picture on social media. (LSX) |
| 2:31 pm | 1.50 | 2 ESE New Athens | St. Clair, IL | Slack post of ping pong ball sized hail. (LSX) |
| 2:34 pm | 1.50 | 2 E New Athens | St. Clair, IL | Report east of New Athens. (LSX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,213 signatures from 6 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; 230 were rated 100% and 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KSTL | 565 | 97 | 114 | 5 | 2.75 in | 7:00 am | 4:27 pm |
| KLSX | 212 | 28 | 35 | 3 | 2.00 in | 7:01 am | 4:27 pm |
| KPAH | 153 | 43 | 33 | 1 | 2.25 in | 10:58 am | 4:27 pm |
| KILX | 140 | 26 | 18 | 1 | 2.00 in | 7:23 am | 4:29 pm |
| KVWX | 136 | 35 | 30 | 3 | 2.25 in | 11:00 am | 4:28 pm |
| KSGF | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 1:15 pm | 1:58 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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