Storm report · Jeff Davis

Hail in Fort Davis Jul 6, 2026

Hit 28 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 9th most severe storm Fort Davis 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.

0.8 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Fort Davis 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 radar-signature map of the hail storm over Fort Davis, TX on Jul 6, 2026

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 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Fort Davis, TX on Jul 6, 2026

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 0.5"
The storm in context

Where Jul 6, 2026 sits in Fort Davis's hail record

This was Fort Davis's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Davis at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Davis: the same system put hail over 832 other tracked cities, 125 of them in Texas. Nearest: Comstock (159 miles east, up to 1.75"); Sonora (204 miles east, up to 2"); Christoval (205 miles east, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Fort Davis's Jul 6, 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.

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.

For this storm over Fort Davis, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Fort Davis 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.

Track hail over Fort Davis on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Fort Davis storm history — this Jul 6, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Fort Davis hail history

11 recorded storm days in Fort Davis, TX

← All hail in Fort Davis

Other storms in Fort Davis

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 3, 2026.