Hail size 2.75"
2 NW Willow City Gillespie County
“Facebook photo of baseball size hail near Bell Mountain Winery. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Llano May 6, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 55 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
1,143
Ground reports
6
6 hailThe most severe storm Llano 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.
9.0 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Llano 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
4"
Detections
55
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
2.5"
Where May 6, 2026 sits in Llano's hail record
This was Llano's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Apr 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Llano at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Llano: the same system put hail over 226 other tracked cities, 18 of them in Texas. Nearest: Bluffton (7 miles north, up to 2.5"); Burnet (12 miles east, up to 2.75"); Round Mountain (18 miles south, up to 3.25").
These maps are stills from Llano's May 6, 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
6 reports Hail size 2.25"
1 SW Llano Llano County
“At the intersection of FM 2323 and CR117 near Llano. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Llano Llano County
“Report From mPing. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 S Llano Llano County
“Hen egg size hail on CR 119 south of Llano. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 S Llano Llano County
“Corrects previous hail report from 1 S Llano. Hen egg size hail on CR 119 south of Llano. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
3 WSW Llano Llano County
“Falling at CR 117 in Llano County. (EWX)”
— 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
The storm tracked south at roughly 25 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 51 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Willow City — beyond Llano itself.
What 4" hail means for Llano 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
$14M
Potential roof exposure — 1,143 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
6 jobs
Illustrative work
~$90K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Llano hail history
← All hail in Llano 12 recorded storm days in Llano, TX
Other storms in Llano
Jul 6, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 19, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 21, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 19, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
2
ground reports 
May 10, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
Apr 30, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 12, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
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.