The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Cleburne this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
2"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft31,992
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13 hail · 2 tornadoOverview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
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 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Cleburne, so there is one map to show, not two.
This was Cleburne's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 49 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Cleburne at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Cleburne: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Rio Vista (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Covington (9 miles southeast, up to 2"); Godley (14 miles northwest, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Cleburne's Apr 28, 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.
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.
“An EF-1 tornado formed to the northeast of Rio Vista the evening of Tuesday... April 28th. Damage to trees and lightweight metal structures was reported east of Rio Vis (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“An EF-0 tornado formed west of Cleburne and moved southeast across Lake Pat Cleburne the evening of Tuesday... April 28th. Damage to trees was reported as well as damag (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Trained spotter reported baseball size hail near Godley. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Amateur radio operator reported baseball hail near US 67 and Chisholm Trail Expressway. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Amateur radio operator reported 2 inch hail at Cleburne High School. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Amateur radio operator reported 3 inch hail at the Johnson County EOC in Cleburne. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Trained spotter reported 4.5 inch hail on 171 between Cresson and Godley. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Trained spotter submitted photos of measured 3.5 inch hail. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“NOAA employee reported 3 inch hail between Godley and Cleburne. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Amateur radio operator reported 2 inch hail 5 miles west southwest of Grandview. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 25 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 48 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Godley, Covington, and Rio Vista — beyond Cleburne itself.
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.
$384M
Potential roof exposure — 31,992 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Cleburne storm history — this Apr 28, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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8 recorded storm days in Cleburne, TX
Jun 6, 2026
1"
Jun 2, 2026
1.75"
May 25, 2026
1"
May 22, 2026
0.75"
May 19, 2026
1"
Mar 10, 2026
0.5"
Mar 4, 2026
2.5"