Hail in Garwood · Mar 11, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Garwood that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Mar 11, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Garwood has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Garwood 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 11, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Garwood, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 11, 2026 sits in Garwood's hail record.
This was Garwood's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Mar 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garwood at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garwood: the same system put hail over 41 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Texas. Nearest: Weimar (25 miles west, up to 0.5"); La Grange (50 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Smithville (54 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Garwood 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
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 Garwood, 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 Garwood roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Garwood hail history
Other storms in Garwood.
Estimated-size surface Aug 28, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface May 26, 2026
NEXRAD surface May 1, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 30, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Mar 7, 2026
0.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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