Hail in La Grange · Mar 11, 2026
Convective day · Mar 11, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm La Grange has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 55 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How La Grange 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 11, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over La Grange, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 11, 2026 sits in La Grange's hail record.
This was La Grange's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over La Grange at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than La Grange: the same system put hail over 41 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Texas. Nearest: Smithville (6 miles west, up to 0.5"); Weimar (30 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Garwood (50 miles southeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 La Grange storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over La Grange. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for La Grange roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$6.5M
Potential roof exposure — 544 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 3 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 544 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.
Claim window
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $114 on top of the $150 plan.
La Grange hail history
Other storms in La Grange.
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 28, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 10, 2026
Estimated-size surface May 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 12, 2026
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