Hail size 1"
3 SE Lubbock Int. Airpo Lubbock County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Lubbock May 22, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lubbock this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
18,255
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe 4th most severe storm Lubbock 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.
4.8 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 85 /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 Lubbock 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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lubbock, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 22, 2026 sits in Lubbock's hail record
This was Lubbock's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the May 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lubbock at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lubbock: the same system put hail over 417 other tracked cities, 224 of them in Texas. Nearest: Slaton (19 miles east, up to 1.25"); Idalou (24 miles northeast, up to 1"); Lorenzo (31 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Lubbock's May 22, 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"
1 WSW Slaton Lubbock County
“Isolated quarter size hail... but mostly dime and smaller. (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 WNW Slaton Lubbock County
“Media viewer sent in hail picture. (LUB)”
— 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 northwest at roughly 20 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 41 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Lubbock Int. Airpo and Slaton — beyond Lubbock itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Lubbock 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
$219M
Potential roof exposure — 18,255 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
91 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.4M
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.
Track hail over Lubbock on the live map
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Lubbock hail history
← All hail in Lubbock 11 recorded storm days in Lubbock, TX
Other storms in Lubbock
Jul 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 25, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
3
ground reports 
Jun 11, 2026
2.5" Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Jun 5, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.75"
1
ground report 
May 23, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 30, 2026
0.75" Signatures 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.