Tornado Rating unknown
8 NW Godley Johnson County
“A brief tornado on the east side of Cresson was captured on video the evening of Tuesday... April 28th. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Godley Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Godley this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
2.75"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
7,967
Ground reports
14
11 hail · 1 wind · 2 tornadoThe most severe storm Godley 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.
7.6 /10
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 78 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Godley saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
2.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Godley, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Godley's hail record
This was Godley's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 55 days after the Mar 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Godley at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Godley: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Joshua (5 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Granbury (9 miles west, up to 2.75"); Burleson (9 miles east, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Godley'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.
Tornado reports
2 reports Tornado Rating unknown
3 WSW Cleburne Johnson County
“An EF-0 tornado formed west of Cleburne and moved southeast across Lake Pat Cleburne the evening of Tuesday... April 28th. Damage to trees was reported as well as damag (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail reports
11 reports Hail size 3"
2 NW Godley Johnson County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
2 NW Godley Johnson County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
2 NW Godley Johnson County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
1 ENE Godley Johnson County
“Trained spotter reported baseball size hail near Godley. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
3 N Godley Johnson County
“3 inch wind driven hail. Broken windows on homes. Gray Fox Court near Godley. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
8 NW Godley Hood County
“Report from mPING of 2.75 inch hail in Cresson. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
2 NW Cleburne Johnson County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 4.5"
4 ESE Godley Johnson County
“Trained spotter reported 4.5 inch hail on 171 between Cresson and Godley. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3.5"
2 E Godley Johnson County
“Trained spotter submitted photos of measured 3.5 inch hail. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
4 ESE Godley Johnson County
“NOAA employee reported 3 inch hail between Godley and Cleburne. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
2 E Godley Johnson County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 65 mph
7 NW Godley Johnson County
“Amateur radio operator reported a 65 mph wind gust between Cresson and Godley. Time estimated by radar. (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
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 30 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 33 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Cleburne — beyond Godley itself.
What 2.75" hail means for Godley 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
$96M
Potential roof exposure — 7,967 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
40 jobs
Illustrative work
~$600K
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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Godley hail history
← All hail in Godley 6 recorded storm days in Godley, TX
Other storms in Godley
Jun 2, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 28, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 29, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
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 2, 2026.