Hail size 1.75"
5 NW Poynor Henderson County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Larue Apr 29, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Larue this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,605
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Larue 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.
3.9 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 64 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Larue 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
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Larue, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Larue's hail record
This was Larue's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Apr 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Larue at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Larue: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 116 of them in Texas. Nearest: Frankston (9 miles east, up to 1"); Athens (12 miles west, up to 2"); Murchison (14 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Larue's Apr 29, 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
3 reports Hail size 1"
6 WSW Moore Station Henderson County
“Amateur radio reports quarter sized hail in New York Texas. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
8 WNW Poynor Henderson County
“Quarter sized hail reported by amateur radio 3 miles NW of Larue. (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
Hail was reported over 17 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Poynor and Moore Station — beyond Larue itself.
What 1" hail means for Larue 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
$19M
Potential roof exposure — 1,605 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
8 jobs
Illustrative work
~$120K
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 Larue on the live map
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Larue hail history
← All hail in Larue 6 recorded storm days in Larue, TX
Other storms in Larue
Jul 5, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 24, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.