Wind gust 69 mph
Laguna Vista Cameron County
“Mesonet station DW1996 Laguna Vista. (BRO)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Los Fresnos May 9, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 8 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
306
Ground reports
2
2 windThe most severe storm Los Fresnos 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.
6.2 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 50 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Los Fresnos 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 signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
3"
Detections
8
Radar-estimated hail size
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1.25"
Where May 9, 2026 sits in Los Fresnos's hail record
This was Los Fresnos's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Los Fresnos at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Los Fresnos: the same system put hail over 268 other tracked cities, 97 of them in Texas. Nearest: Port Isabel (6 miles east, up to 3"); Harlingen (19 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); La Feria (26 miles west, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Los Fresnos's May 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.
Wind reports
2 reports Wind gust 82 mph
5 N Rancho Viejo Cameron County
“Mesonet station TWB79 Russell Farms. (BRO)”
— 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 30 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Laguna Vista and Rancho Viejo — beyond Los Fresnos itself.
What 3" hail means for Los Fresnos 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
$3.7M
Potential roof exposure — 306 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
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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Los Fresnos hail history
← All hail in Los Fresnos 6 recorded storm days in Los Fresnos, TX
Other storms in Los Fresnos
Jul 23, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 21, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 24, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
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.