Hail in Balmorhea · Jun 30, 2026
Convective day · Jun 30, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Balmorhea has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Balmorhea 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 30, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Balmorhea, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 30, 2026 sits in Balmorhea's hail record.
This was Balmorhea's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Jun 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Balmorhea at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Balmorhea: the same system put hail over 720 other tracked cities, 19 of them in Texas. Nearest: Barstow (39 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Pecos (41 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Pyote (49 miles northeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Balmorhea 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
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.
For this storm over Balmorhea, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Balmorhea roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Balmorhea hail history
Other storms in Balmorhea.
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 26, 2026
1.75"
NEXRAD surface May 25, 2026
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