Hail size 1"
4 NNW University Park Dallas County
“Hail up to 1 inches reported. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Dallas May 22, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Dallas this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
68,276
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe 5th 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.
4.7 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 97 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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
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
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
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Dallas, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 22, 2026 sits in Dallas's hail record
This was Dallas's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the May 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Dallas at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Dallas: the same system put hail over 417 other tracked cities, 224 of them in Texas. Nearest: Carrollton (16 miles northwest, up to 1"); Forney (16 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Irving (18 miles west, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Dallas's May 22, 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.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1.5"
1 E Carrollton Dallas County
“Delayed report. A post on X showed 1.5 inch hail near the intersection of Trinity Mills Rd and Scott Mill Rd. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 E Duncanville Dallas County
“Hail up to 1 inch was reported. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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
Hail was reported over 26 minutes, from to .
Reports came from University Park, Carrollton, and Duncanville — beyond Dallas itself.
What 1" hail means for Dallas roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$819M
Potential roof exposure — 68,276 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
341 jobs
Illustrative work
~$5.1M
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
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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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 2, 2026.