Storm report · Harris

Hail in Houston Apr 30, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

2.5"

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

113,236

Ground reports

8 hail

Severity

The most severe storm Houston 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: 63 /100
Homes exposed: 100 /100
Ground truth: 100 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Houston saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Houston, TX on Apr 30, 2026 — NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 2.5" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail size

Map image is still rendering for this surface.

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 1.25"

The storm in context

Where Apr 30, 2026 sits in Houston's hail record

This was Houston's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Apr 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Houston at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Houston: the same system put hail over 79 other tracked cities, 74 of them in Texas. Nearest: Tomball (9 miles northwest, up to 1"); Humble (14 miles northeast, up to 0"); Katy (18 miles west, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Houston's Apr 30, 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.

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.

Hail reports

8 reports

Hail size 1"

2 N Pearland Brazoria County

5:28 AM UTC

“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). Corroborated with nearby spotter reports. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

3 NE Pearland Harris County

5:31 AM UTC

“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). Corroborated with nearby spotter reports. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

4 E Pearland Harris County

5:28 AM UTC

“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). Corroborated with nearby spotter reports. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

4 ENE Pearland Harris County

5:26 AM UTC

“Report of hail near the intersection of Scarsdale Blvd and Beamer Rd in SE Harris County. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

2 WSW Brookside Village Brazoria County

5:15 AM UTC

“Report of 1 inch hail near the intersection of Cullen Blvd and Hawk Rd. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

Missouri City Fort Bend County

5:05 AM UTC

“Reported near the intersection of Turtle Creek Dr and Point Clear Dr. Large volume of nickel sized hail... but largest stones were over 1 inch but less than 1.5 inches. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

4 NE Fresno Brazoria County

5:12 AM UTC

“A news station published a story sharing information regarding damage to schools in Alvin. The story mentioned that Alvin ISD superintendent reported roof damage to Mar (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

3 NE Fresno Brazoria County

5:11 AM UTC

“Corrects previous hail report from 3 NE Fresno. A news station published a story sharing information regarding damage to schools in Alvin. The story mentioned that Alvi (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Hail was reported over 26 minutes, from 5:05 AM UTC to 5:31 AM UTC .

Reports came from Pearland, Brookside Village, Missouri City, and Fresno — beyond Houston itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.5" hail means for Houston 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

$1.4B

Potential roof exposure — 113,236 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

566 jobs

Illustrative work

~$8.5M

Close just 0.5% of the 113,236 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.

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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Houston hail history

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