Hail size 1.5"
4 WNW Gholson Bosque County
“Facebook photo showed ping pong ball size hail on PR 3666 near China Spring. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Aquilla Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Aquilla this day.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
980
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Aquilla 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.
4.4 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Aquilla saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Aquilla, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Aquilla's hail record
This was Aquilla's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Apr 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Aquilla at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Aquilla: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Elm Mott (9 miles southeast, up to 2.25"); China Spring (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Abbott (11 miles northeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Aquilla's Apr 28, 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.
Hail reports
1 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
Reports came from Gholson — beyond Aquilla itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Aquilla 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
$12M
Potential roof exposure — 980 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K
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.
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Aquilla hail history
← All hail in Aquilla 4 recorded storm days in Aquilla, TX
Other storms in Aquilla
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 2, 2026.