Wind gust 64 mph
1 ENE Farmers Branch Dallas County
“Trained spotter measured a 64 mph wind gust with a handheld anemometer. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Dallas May 19, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Dallas this day.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
4,535
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 7th most severe storm Dallas has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.8 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 73 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Dallas saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Dallas, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 19, 2026 sits in Dallas's hail record
This was Dallas's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 20 days after the Apr 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Dallas at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Dallas: the same system put hail over 263 other tracked cities, 151 of them in Texas. Nearest: Lake Dallas (25 miles northwest, up to 1"); Mansfield (29 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Aubrey (37 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Dallas's May 19, 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.
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.
Wind reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Farmers Branch — beyond Dallas itself.
What 0.5" hail means for Dallas roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$54M
Potential roof exposure — 4,535 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
23 jobs
Illustrative work
~$345K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Dallas on the live map
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Dallas hail history
← All hail in Dallas 11 recorded storm days in Dallas, TX
Other storms in Dallas
Jun 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
May 22, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
3
ground reports 
Apr 29, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 28, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 27, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
9
ground reports 
Apr 25, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 3.25"
8
ground reports 
Mar 4, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 2, 2026.