Hail in Laredo Apr 9, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft1,381
0
none filedThe 6th most severe storm Laredo has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 63 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Laredo 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.
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
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.
Where Apr 9, 2026 sits in Laredo's hail record
This was Laredo's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 32 days after the Mar 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Laredo at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Laredo: the same system put hail over 161 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Texas. Nearest: Cedar Creek (207 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Bastrop (220 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Vega (554 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Laredo's Apr 9, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Laredo. 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.
What 0.5" hail means for Laredo roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$17M
Potential roof exposure — 1,381 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Laredo on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Laredo, TX
Other storms in Laredo
Jun 19, 2026
0.75"
May 26, 2026
2.5"
May 18, 2026
1"
May 8, 2026
1"
Apr 20, 2026
0.75"
Mar 8, 2026
1"