Hail size 1.5"
1 SSW Graham Young County
“Photos on X showed ping pong ball size hail on the south side of Graham along Hwy 16. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Graham Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Graham this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
10,216
Ground reports
5
4 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Graham 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.
7.8 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 80 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Graham 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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
3"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Graham, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Graham's hail record
This was Graham's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Apr 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Graham at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Graham: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Texas. Nearest: Breckenridge (10 miles south, up to 3"); Woodson (12 miles west, up to 3"); Newcastle (14 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Graham's Apr 15, 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
4 reports Hail size 1"
10 SE Graham Young County
“Video on X showed hail up to quarter size at Hwy 16 and FM 1191. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
3 SW Graham Young County
“Golf ball sized hail reported by Hraham PD at HWY 67 near Medlan Chapen Rd. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 SW Graham Young County
“(FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 64 mph
1 ENE Graham Young County
“KRPH. Time estimated from 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 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 67 minutes, from to .
What 3" hail means for Graham 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
$123M
Potential roof exposure — 10,216 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
51 jobs
Illustrative work
~$765K
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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Graham hail history
← All hail in Graham 11 recorded storm days in Graham, TX
Other storms in Graham
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 18, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
May 28, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 10, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 28, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
Apr 3, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
Mar 4, 2026
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.