Hail size 1"
Childress Childress County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Childress
Hail in Childress · Jun 23, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 2.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Childress that day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 2.25" ≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 4,135
Ground reports 5 3 hail · 2 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Childress has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 6.4 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
6.4 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 72 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Childress saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 23, 2026 · Childress, 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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
2.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 23, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Childress, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 23, 2026 sits in Childress's hail record.
This was Childress's 12th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Childress at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Childress: the same system put hail over 330 other tracked cities, 75 of them in Texas. Nearest: Tell (9 miles west, up to 1.75"); Quanah (29 miles east, up to 2"); Eldorado (32 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Childress 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
5 reports 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
3 reports Hail size 1.75"
1 NNW Childress Childress County
“(LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 NW Childress Childress County
“(LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
2 reports Wind gust 68 mph
11 S Kirkland Cottle County
“(LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 59 mph
2 NNE Childress Childress County
“(LUB)”
— 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.
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 25 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 39 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Kirkland — beyond Childress itself.
Severe hail signal
What 2.25" hail means for Childress roofs.
Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
4,135 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$50M
Potential roof exposure — 4,135 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 21 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$315K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,135 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
June 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 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 $868 on top of the $150 plan.
Childress hail history
Other storms in Childress.
13 recorded storm days in Childress, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Jul 31, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Jun 18, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Jun 11, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Jun 3, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
May 30, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
May 29, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
May 22, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
May 15, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Apr 14, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Apr 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Apr 1, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 0.75"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Childress / TX
Mar 31, 2026
3.25" Signatures 3.25" Estimated 2.5"
4 ground reports Open report →
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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 3, 2026.