Hail in Wichita on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 18 hail reports in Wichita on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, between 4:52 pm and 6:56 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Andover (Butler County) at 6:40 pm. NOAA radar flagged 357 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 192 rated a 100% chance of hail and 146 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 14 places in Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick and Sumner counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Andover 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Benton 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Newton 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Whitewater 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Clearwater 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Colwich 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Conway Springs 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Douglass 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- East Wichita 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- El Dorado 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Halstead 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Kechi 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Mount Hope 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Park City 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:52 pm | 1.00 | 5 NW Halstead | Harvey | (ICT) |
| 5:11 pm | 1.00 | Mount Hope | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 5:34 pm | 1.75 | 2 S Newton | Harvey | (ICT) |
| 5:34 pm | 1.00 | 5 WSW Newton | Harvey | Picture received via Facebook. (ICT) |
| 5:43 pm | 1.00 | Colwich | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 5:56 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Whitewater | Harvey | (ICT) |
| 5:57 pm | 1.00 | 4 S Whitewater | Butler | (ICT) |
| 5:58 pm | 1.75 | 3 N Kechi | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 6:02 pm | 1.50 | Park City | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 6:05 pm | 1.00 | Douglass | Butler | Quarter sized hail with up to 50 mph winds. (ICT) |
| 6:14 pm | 1.00 | 1 WNW Benton | Butler | (ICT) |
| 6:30 pm | 1.00 | Clearwater | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 6:30 pm | 1.00 | 1 ESE East Wichita | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 6:32 pm | 1.00 | Andover | Butler | (ICT) |
| 6:34 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW El Dorado | Butler | (ICT) |
| 6:40 pm | 1.75 | Andover | Butler | (ICT) |
| 6:40 pm | 1.00 | 3 ESE Benton | Butler | Delayed report. Time estimated by radar. (ICT) |
| 6:56 pm | 1.00 | Conway Springs | Sumner | Social media report. (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
357 signatures from 7 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; 192 were rated 100% and 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KICH | 148 | 28 | 29 | 0 | 1.75 in | 7:04 pm | 9:01 pm |
| KVNX | 49 | 39 | 27 | 0 | 1.75 in | 7:01 pm | 8:31 pm |
| KICT | 47 | 34 | 27 | 3 | 2.25 in | 3:26 pm | 8:41 pm |
| KINX | 43 | 35 | 26 | 2 | 2.00 in | 7:01 pm | 8:34 pm |
| KTWX | 39 | 34 | 21 | 0 | 1.75 in | 7:03 pm | 8:36 pm |
| KTLX | 30 | 22 | 16 | 1 | 2.00 in | 7:00 pm | 8:48 pm |
| KEAX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:03 pm | 7:03 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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