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
/ Storm field report · Randall
Hail in Amarillo · Jul 12, 2026
NEXRAD logged 18 hail signatures up to 1.5"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 1.5" ≈ ping-pong ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 15,579
Ground reports 2 1 hail · 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Amarillo has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 84 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Amarillo saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 12, 2026 · Amarillo, 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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 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"
The storm in context
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 4th of the 16 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 (7 miles south, up to 2.5"); Tulia (35 miles south, up to 0.5"); Hereford (41 miles southwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 16 Amarillo storm dates 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
2 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
1 report Hail size 1"
5 SSW Amarillo Randall County
“(AMA)”
— 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 15 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Lake Tanglewood — beyond Amarillo itself.
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Amarillo 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.
15,579 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$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
Close just 0.5% of the 15,579 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
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $3,272 on top of the $150 plan.
Amarillo hail history
Other storms in Amarillo.
16 recorded storm days in Amarillo, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Sep 10, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
4 ground reports Open report →
Map unavailable
NEXRAD surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Aug 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Aug 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Aug 6, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jul 24, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jul 5, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jun 29, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jun 24, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jun 23, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jun 13, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Jun 5, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
May 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
May 22, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Amarillo / TX
Mar 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
3 ground reports Open report →
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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 Sep 11, 2026.