Hail size 1.75"
4 SSE Woodson Throckmorton County
“Reported Golfball size hail along county line southeast of Woodson by Woodson VFD. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Breckenridge Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Breckenridge this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
4,558
Ground reports
5
4 hail · 1 windThe 2nd most severe storm Breckenridge 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.
7.6 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 73 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Breckenridge saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
3"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Breckenridge, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Breckenridge's hail record
This was Breckenridge's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Apr 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Breckenridge at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Breckenridge: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Texas. Nearest: Graham (10 miles north, up to 3"); Caddo (12 miles east, up to 1.5"); Woodson (16 miles northwest, up to 3").
These maps are stills from Breckenridge's Apr 15, 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
4 reports Hail size 1.25"
1 E Breckenridge Stephens County
“Report from mPING Half Dollar 1.25 in. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Breckenridge Stephens County
“Viewer sent broadcast media a picture of quarter to half dollar sized hail on south Miller Street near downtown Breckenridge. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
Breckenridge Stephens County
“Several Facebook reports and photos of up to golfball size hail in Breckenridge. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 65 mph
4 SSE Woodson Throckmorton County
“65 mph winds from a storm southeast of Woodson along county line. Reported by Woodson VFD. (SJT)”
— 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
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 91 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Woodson — beyond Breckenridge itself.
What 3" hail means for Breckenridge 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$55M
Potential roof exposure — 4,558 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
23 jobs
Illustrative work
~$345K
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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Breckenridge hail history
← All hail in Breckenridge 13 recorded storm days in Breckenridge, TX
Other storms in Breckenridge
Jul 5, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 6, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
May 28, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 10, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2"
4
ground reports 
Apr 28, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 11, 2026
Apr 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
7
ground reports 
Mar 6, 2026
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.