Storm day · May 1, 2026

Hail storms on May 1, 2026

51 cities across 4 states recorded hail on May 1, 2026 — a multi-state outbreak. The largest stone reached 4" over Tivoli — softball or larger, severe, roof-replacing hail.

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Cities hit

51

across 4 states
Biggest hailstone

4"

≈ softball or larger · Tivoli
Homes in footprints

19,186

Ground reports

12

What a storm day means

A storm day on Overview is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Everything below happened inside the May 1, 2026 convective day. Across those footprints sit roughly 19,186 homes, and 12 ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service. The cities are listed with the biggest storm first, measured by Overview's severity score. Each row links through to that city's own storm page, where you'll find the radar surfaces, every ground report filed, and the hail footprint drawn on the map. The counts here are the size of the set of cities Overview tracks — never "every US city" — so read a quiet day as "quiet among the places we watch," not as proof nothing happened elsewhere.

Cities hit, by state

Every city we track that saw hail on May 1, 2026

Texas

43 cities · up to 4"
Victoria, TX 8.5 /10 severity
3.75" hail 4,823 homes 3 ground reports
Tivoli, TX 7.5 /10 severity
4" hail 278 homes 1 ground report
Jourdanton, TX 6.7 /10 severity
3.5" hail 830 homes No ground reports
Refugio, TX 6.7 /10 severity
4" hail 21 homes No ground reports
Goliad, TX 6.6 /10 severity
3.5" hail 489 homes No ground reports
Port Lavaca, TX 5.9 /10 severity
3" hail 191 homes 1 ground report
Kenedy, TX 5.7 /10 severity
2.5" hail 2,126 homes 1 ground report
Karnes City, TX 5.6 /10 severity
2.5" hail 1,862 homes 1 ground report
Point Comfort, TX 5.6 /10 severity
3" hail 41 homes 1 ground report
Pleasanton, TX 5.5 /10 severity
2.75" hail 670 homes No ground reports
Vanderbilt, TX 5.5 /10 severity
3" hail 98 homes No ground reports
Falls City, TX 5.4 /10 severity
2.75" hail 421 homes No ground reports
Port O Connor, TX 5.2 /10 severity
2.5" hail 790 homes No ground reports
Runge, TX 5.2 /10 severity
2.5" hail 700 homes No ground reports
Bay City, TX 5.0 /10 severity
2" hail 1,010 homes 2 ground reports
Inez, TX 5.0 /10 severity
2.75" hail 64 homes No ground reports
La Salle, TX 5.0 /10 severity
2.75" hail 51 homes No ground reports
Palacios, TX 5.0 /10 severity
2" hail 1,070 homes 2 ground reports
Lolita, TX 4.7 /10 severity
2.5" hail 66 homes No ground reports
Three Rivers, TX 4.7 /10 severity
2.5" hail 96 homes No ground reports
Hobson, TX 4.6 /10 severity
2.25" hail 234 homes No ground reports
Placedo, TX 4.6 /10 severity
2.5" hail 60 homes No ground reports
Pettus, TX 4.4 /10 severity
2.25" hail 103 homes No ground reports
Beeville, TX 4.2 /10 severity
2.25" hail 40 homes No ground reports
Seadrift, TX 4.1 /10 severity
2" hail 182 homes No ground reports
La Ward, TX 3.8 /10 severity
2" hail 43 homes No ground reports
Bigfoot, TX 3.7 /10 severity
1.75" hail 147 homes No ground reports
Charlotte, TX 3.5 /10 severity
1.75" hail 62 homes No ground reports
Yorktown, TX 3.5 /10 severity
1.75" hail 57 homes No ground reports
La Pryor, TX 3.2 /10 severity
1.25" hail 521 homes No ground reports
Moore, TX 2.8 /10 severity
1.25" hail 70 homes No ground reports
Pearsall, TX 2.7 /10 severity
1.25" hail 37 homes No ground reports
Whitsett, TX 2.6 /10 severity
1.25" hail 29 homes No ground reports
El Campo, TX 2.5 /10 severity
1" hail 86 homes No ground reports
Blessing, TX 2.4 /10 severity
1" hail 64 homes No ground reports
Beasley, TX 2.3 /10 severity
0.75" hail 239 homes No ground reports
Wharton, TX 2.3 /10 severity
0.75" hail 217 homes No ground reports
Hallettsville, TX 2.2 /10 severity
0.75" hail 151 homes No ground reports
Boling, TX 1.9 /10 severity
0.5" hail 216 homes No ground reports
Garwood, TX 1.7 /10 severity
0.75" hail 12 homes No ground reports
Sabinal, TX 1.7 /10 severity
0.75" hail 14 homes No ground reports
Sinton, TX 1.3 /10 severity
0.75" hail 1 homes No ground reports
Rockport, TX 0.8 /10 severity
0.5" hail 0 homes No ground reports

Louisiana

3 cities · up to 2"
Hackberry, LA 4.2 /10 severity
2" hail 201 homes No ground reports
Lake Charles, LA 2.6 /10 severity
1.75" hail 0 homes No ground reports
Golden Meadow, LA 2.0 /10 severity
1.25" hail 1 homes No ground reports

New York

4 cities · up to 1.5"
Gouverneur, NY 3.5 /10 severity
1.5" hail 286 homes No ground reports
Harrisville, NY 3.5 /10 severity
1.5" hail 296 homes No ground reports
Madrid, NY 2.1 /10 severity
0.75" hail 77 homes No ground reports
De Kalb Junction, NY 1.9 /10 severity
0.75" hail 43 homes No ground reports

New Mexico

1 city · up to 0.5"
Silver City, NM 0.8 /10 severity
0.5" hail 0 homes No ground reports

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Storm days are convective days (noon-to-noon UTC). Cities and counts are the set Overview tracks, not every place hail fell. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center; radar sizes are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage.