Hail size 3.25"
Itasca Hill County
“Photo of measured 3.25 inch hail. Time estimated. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Hillsboro Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hillsboro this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
8,122
Ground reports
7
7 hailThe most severe storm Hillsboro 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.
6.8 /10
- Hail size
- 56 /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 Hillsboro 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
2.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Hillsboro, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Hillsboro's hail record
This was Hillsboro's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 109 days after the Jan 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hillsboro at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hillsboro: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Bynum (6 miles east, up to 1"); Abbott (8 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Irene (12 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Hillsboro'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.
Hail reports
7 reports Hail size 2.5"
Itasca Hill County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
3 S Itasca Hill County
“Report from mPING. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
1 NW Abbott Hill County
“Spotter reports 1.25 inch hail near Abbott. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
3 ENE West McLennan County
“3 inch hail on Cottonwood near North Czech Hall Road. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
3 NE West McLennan County
“Baseball size hail between West and Penelope via social media report. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Abbott Hill County
“1 inch hail from public phone call in Abbott. (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 south at roughly 20 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 73 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Itasca, Abbott, and West — beyond Hillsboro itself.
What 2.25" hail means for Hillsboro 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
$97M
Potential roof exposure — 8,122 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
41 jobs
Illustrative work
~$615K
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.
Track hail over Hillsboro on the live map
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Hillsboro hail history
← All hail in Hillsboro 5 recorded storm days in Hillsboro, TX
Other storms in Hillsboro
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.