Hail in Bowie May 8, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature1,166
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Bowie has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Bowie saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Where May 8, 2026 sits in Bowie's hail record
This was Bowie's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Apr 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bowie at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bowie: the same system put hail over 378 other tracked cities, 85 of them in Texas. Nearest: Henrietta (15 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Jacksboro (18 miles south, up to 2.5"); Bridgeport (19 miles southeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Bowie's May 8, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Bowie for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 2.5" hail means for Bowie roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$14M
Potential roof exposure — 1,166 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Bowie on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Bowie, TX
Other storms in Bowie
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Jun 18, 2026
0.5"
May 24, 2026
0.5"
May 19, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
3.25"
Apr 25, 2026
2.5"