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Hail in Bridgeport · Apr 15, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bridgeport that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 1,395

Ground reports 1 1 hail

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Apr 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 8th most severe storm Bridgeport has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.3 / 10

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.3 /10

Peak hail signal: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 63 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Bridgeport saw the hail — from two instruments

Apr 15, 2026 · Bridgeport, TX

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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bridgeport, TX on Apr 15, 2026 — 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.

Max size 1"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bridgeport, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Bridgeport's hail record.

This was Bridgeport's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bridgeport at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bridgeport: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Texas. Nearest: Chico (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Jacksboro (12 miles west, up to 2"); Perrin (13 miles southwest, up to 2").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Bridgeport 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

1 report 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.

Hail reports

1 report

Hail size 1"

Runaway Bay Wise County

12:15 AM UTC

“Report and video on X showed up to quarter size hail fell in Runaway Bay. (FWD)”
— 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.

Reports came from Runaway Bay — beyond Bridgeport itself.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1" hail means for Bridgeport roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

1,395 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$17M

Potential roof exposure — 1,395 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 7 jobs
Illustrative work: ~$105K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,395 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

April 2028

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.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $293 on top of the $150 plan.

Bridgeport hail history

11 recorded storm days in Bridgeport, TX

← All hail in Bridgeport

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bridgeport, TX on Jun 6, 2026

Estimated-size surface

Storm date Bridgeport / TX

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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 Aug 2, 2026.

The 8th most severe storm Bridgeport has seen in the last 12 months

How Bridgeport saw the hail — from two instruments

Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Bridgeport's hail record.

What people on the ground reported

Hail reports

How the storm moved

What 1" hail means for Bridgeport roofs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

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