Hail size 1.75"
2 SW Lake View Val Verde County
“Report of numerous hail stones size of golf balls via phone call to the office. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Del Rio Apr 29, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 4" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
16,964
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe most severe storm Del Rio 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.
8.9 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 85 /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 Del Rio 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
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.
Max size
2.5"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
4"
Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Del Rio's hail record
This was Del Rio's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Apr 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Del Rio at 4" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Del Rio: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 116 of them in Texas. Nearest: Rocksprings (44 miles east, up to 2"); Ozona (53 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Camp Wood (60 miles east, up to 3.5").
These maps are stills from Del Rio's Apr 29, 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 2"
3 SE Lake View Val Verde County
“Via Facebook. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
3 WSW Rough Canyon Recr Val Verde County
“Public report of hail to golf ball size off Spur 406 on the north side of Lake Amistad. (EWX)”
— 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 23 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Lake View and Rough Canyon Recr — beyond Del Rio itself.
What 4" hail means for Del Rio roofs
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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$204M
Potential roof exposure — 16,964 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
85 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.3M
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.
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Del Rio hail history
← All hail in Del Rio 10 recorded storm days in Del Rio, TX
Other storms in Del Rio
May 22, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 19, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
2
ground reports 
May 10, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 30, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 14, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
2
ground reports 
Apr 11, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
2.75" Estimated 2.75"
6
ground reports 
Mar 5, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
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.