Hail — Foard, Texas

2024-04-30 · near Thalia, Foard, Texas

Event narrative

MPing report.

Wider weather episode

A rather nebulous upper air pattern existed across the Southern Plains on the 30th, with 30-40 knots of quasi-zonal flow at 500 mb. However, plentiful solar insolation/surface heating in the vicinity of a dryline fostered widely scattered thunderstorm development by the late afternoon. Strong instability and sufficient organizing wind shear lead to a few of these storms displaying supercellular characteristics and producing reports of large hail initially, owing to steep lapse rates and weak low-level shear (among other factors already mentioned).

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1174174. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.