Hail size 1.5"
2 SE Haslet Tarrant County
“Emergency management reported 1 to 1.5 inch hail near Alliance in the Golden Triangle area. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Denton
Hail in Fort Worth · Aug 26, 2026
Hit 17 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fort Worth that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 15,305
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Fort Worth has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 84 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Fort Worth saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 26, 2026 · Fort Worth, TX
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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 Aug 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fort Worth, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 26, 2026 sits in Fort Worth's hail record.
This was Fort Worth's 13th recorded hail day, arriving 35 days after the Jul 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Worth at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Worth: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Texas. Nearest: Rhome (9 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Decatur (16 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Hillsboro (63 miles south, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Fort Worth storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
2 reports filed with the NWS
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"
3 NW Keller Tarrant County
“Trained spotter reported dime size hail with sporadic quarters near the intersection of Park Vista Blvd and Keller Haslet Rd in far northern Tarrant County. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Haslet and Keller — beyond Fort Worth itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Fort Worth roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
15,305 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$184M
Potential roof exposure — 15,305 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 77 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.2M
Close just 0.5% of the 15,305 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $3,214 on top of the $150 plan.
Fort Worth hail history
Other storms in Fort Worth.
13 recorded storm days in Fort Worth, TX
NEXRAD surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Jul 22, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Jul 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Jun 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Jun 2, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
May 25, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
May 24, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
May 19, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
May 7, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Apr 28, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Apr 25, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2"
40 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Worth / TX
Mar 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 27, 2026.