Hail size 1.25"
6 SW Benbrook Tarrant County
“Report from mPING of 1.25 inch hail southwest of Benbrook. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Fort Worth Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fort Worth this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
64,830
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Fort Worth 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.
6.3 /10
- Hail size
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 96 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Fort Worth 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
2.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fort Worth, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Fort Worth's hail record
This was Fort Worth's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Apr 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Worth at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Worth: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Crowley (6 miles west, up to 1"); Burleson (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Joshua (14 miles southwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Fort Worth's Apr 28, 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
2 reports Hail size 1"
4 W Burleson Johnson County
“Report from mPING of 1 inch hail west southwest of Burleson. (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
Reports came from Benbrook and Burleson — beyond Fort Worth itself.
What 2.25" hail means for Fort Worth 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
$778M
Potential roof exposure — 64,830 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
324 jobs
Illustrative work
~$4.9M
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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Fort Worth hail history
← All hail in Fort Worth 12 recorded storm days in Fort Worth, TX
Other storms in Fort Worth
Jul 22, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 25, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
May 24, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 19, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 7, 2026
Apr 25, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2"
40
ground reports 
Mar 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
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 3, 2026.