Hail size 1.25"
1 NW Abbott Hill County
“Spotter reports 1.25 inch hail near Abbott. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Hill
Hail in Abbott · Apr 28, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Abbott that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.5" ≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,373
Ground reports 4 4 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Apr 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Abbott's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 63 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Abbott saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 28, 2026 · Abbott, TX
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Abbott, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Abbott's hail record.
This was Abbott's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Abbott at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Abbott: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: West (8 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Bynum (8 miles northeast, up to 1"); Malone (9 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Abbott storm date on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
4 reports filed with the NWS
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Hail reports
4 reports Hail size 3"
3 ENE West McLennan County
“3 inch hail on Cottonwood near North Czech Hall Road. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
3 NE West McLennan County
“Baseball size hail between West and Penelope via social media report. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Abbott Hill County
“1 inch hail from public phone call in Abbott. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 17 minutes, from to .
Reports came from West — beyond Abbott itself.
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Abbott roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
1,373 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$16M
Potential roof exposure — 1,373 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 7 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$105K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,373 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
April 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $288 on top of the $150 plan.
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A storm day here 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. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 2, 2026.