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Hail in China Spring · Apr 28, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 1.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over China Spring that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 3,093

Ground reports 1 1 hail

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Apr 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

China Spring's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Composite score · 4.6 / 10

Storm severity score

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

4.6 /10

Peak hail signal: 44 /100
Homes exposed: 70 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How China Spring saw the hail — from two instruments

Apr 28, 2026 · China Spring, TX

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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over China Spring, TX on Apr 28, 2026 — 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.

Max size 1.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over China Spring, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in China Spring's hail record.

This was China Spring's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over China Spring at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than China Spring: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Aquilla (9 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Elm Mott (12 miles east, up to 2.25"); Waco (14 miles southeast, up to 3").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 China Spring storm date 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 1.5"

4 WNW Gholson Bosque County

3:06 AM UTC

“Facebook photo showed ping pong ball size hail on PR 3666 near China Spring. (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 Gholson — beyond China Spring itself.

High damage potential

What 1.75" hail means for China Spring roofs.

Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

3,093 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$37M

Potential roof exposure — 3,093 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 15 jobs
Illustrative work: ~$225K

Close just 0.5% of the 3,093 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 $650 on top of the $150 plan.

China Spring hail history

1 recorded storm day in China Spring, TX

← All hail in China Spring

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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.