Storm report · Harris

Hail in Houston Jul 23, 2026

Hit 11 days ago

NEXRAD caught this storm: 24 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

39,420

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 9th 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.

3.8 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 92 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Houston saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Houston, TX on Jul 23, 2026 — Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 1" Detections 24

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 23, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 23, 2026 sits in Houston's hail record

This was Houston's 18th recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Houston at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Houston: the same system put hail over 164 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Texas. Nearest: Cypress (12 miles west, up to 0.75"); Richmond (18 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Katy (18 miles west, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Houston's Jul 23, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Houston. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Houston roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$473M

Potential roof exposure — 39,420 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

197 jobs

Illustrative work

~$3M

Close just 0.5% of the 39,420 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 July 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

18 recorded storm days in Houston, TX

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