Hail size 2"
4 N Covington Johnson County
“Amateur radio operator reported 2 inch hail 5 miles west southwest of Grandview. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Hill
Hail in Covington · Apr 28, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 2" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Covington that day. At 2" — 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" ≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 3,152
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Apr 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Covington has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Covington saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 28, 2026 · Covington, TX
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
2"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Covington, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Covington's hail record.
This was Covington's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 55 days after the Mar 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Covington at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Covington: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Itasca (6 miles east, up to 2.25"); Rio Vista (6 miles west, up to 1.75"); Blum (7 miles south, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Covington 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
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 reportSevere hail signal
What 2" hail means for Covington 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.
3,152 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$38M
Potential roof exposure — 3,152 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 16 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$240K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,152 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 $662 on top of the $150 plan.
Covington hail history
Other storms in Covington.
2 recorded storm days in Covington, TX
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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.