Hail size 1.5"
Gail Borden County
“Delayed public report. (MAF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Borden
Hail in Gail · May 23, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Gail that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 268
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · May 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Gail 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
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Gail saw the hail — from two instruments
May 23, 2026 · Gail, TX
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 23, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Gail, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 23, 2026 sits in Gail's hail record.
This was Gail's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gail at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gail: the same system put hail over 222 other tracked cities, 92 of them in Texas. Nearest: Ackerly (16 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Lamesa (26 miles west, up to 0.75"); Tahoka (34 miles northwest, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Gail 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
1 report 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
1 reportHigh damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Gail roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
268 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$3.2M
Potential roof exposure — 268 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 268 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
May 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $56 on top of the $150 plan.
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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 2, 2026.