Tornado Rating unknown
3 NNE Lake Tanglewood Randall County
“[Landspout] Two landspouts occurred roughly between FM1151 and loop 335 in the Whitaker Rd area. (AMA)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Amarillo Jul 12, 2026
Hit 22 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 18 hail signatures up to 1.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
15,579
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 tornadoThe 3rd most severe storm Amarillo has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.1 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 84 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Amarillo saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1.5"
Detections
18
Radar-estimated hail size
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"
Where Jul 12, 2026 sits in Amarillo's hail record
This was Amarillo's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Amarillo at 1.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Amarillo: the same system put hail over 367 other tracked cities, 37 of them in Texas. Nearest: Canyon (14 miles south, up to 2.5"); Hereford (35 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Tulia (39 miles south, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Amarillo's Jul 12, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
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.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
1 report Hail size 1"
5 SSW Amarillo Randall County
“(AMA)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 15 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Lake Tanglewood — beyond Amarillo itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Amarillo roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$187M
Potential roof exposure — 15,579 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
78 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.2M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Amarillo hail history
← All hail in Amarillo 12 recorded storm days in Amarillo, TX
Other storms in Amarillo
Jul 24, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 29, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
Jun 23, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
1
ground report 
Jun 13, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 5, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 22, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
2
ground reports 
Mar 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
3
ground reports
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.