Hail in Corpus Christi · May 26, 2026
Convective day · May 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Corpus Christi 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Corpus Christi saw the hail — from two instruments
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 signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
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.
The storm in context
Where May 26, 2026 sits in Corpus Christi's hail record.
This was Corpus Christi's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the May 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Corpus Christi at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Corpus Christi: the same system put hail over 259 other tracked cities, 139 of them in Texas. Nearest: Robstown (21 miles northwest, up to 1"); Banquete (23 miles northwest, up to 1"); Taft (25 miles north, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Corpus Christi roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Corpus Christi hail history
Other storms in Corpus Christi.
Estimated-size surface Sep 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 21, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 1, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 21, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 19, 2026
0.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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