Hail in Brownwood · Apr 29, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Brownwood that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Apr 29, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Brownwood 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 58 /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 Brownwood 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 Apr 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Brownwood, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Brownwood's hail record.
This was Brownwood's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Apr 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Brownwood at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Brownwood: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 116 of them in Texas. Nearest: Early (15 miles northeast, up to 1"); Blanket (22 miles northeast, up to 1"); Comanche (27 miles northeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Brownwood 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Brownwood. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Brownwood 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.
Potential roof exposure
$9.4M
Potential roof exposure — 781 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 4 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$60K
Close just 0.5% of the 781 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 $164 on top of the $150 plan.
Brownwood hail history
Other storms in Brownwood.
NEXRAD surface Jul 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 24, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 19, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 18, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Apr 3, 2026
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
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