Hail size 1"
3 SE Lubbock Int. Airpo Lubbock County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Lubbock
Hail in Lubbock · May 22, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lubbock that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 18,255
Ground reports 3 3 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · May 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Lubbock has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 85 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Lubbock saw the hail — from two instruments
May 22, 2026 · Lubbock, TX
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
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 5th of the 13 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: Idalou (13 miles northeast, up to 1"); Slaton (16 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Lorenzo (18 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Lubbock storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
3 reports filed with the NWS
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
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Lubbock roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
18,255 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$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
Close just 0.5% of the 18,255 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
May 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $3,834 on top of the $150 plan.
Lubbock hail history
Other storms in Lubbock.
13 recorded storm days in Lubbock, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Sep 15, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
4 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Aug 13, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Jul 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Jul 5, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Jun 25, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Jun 11, 2026
2.5" Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Jun 8, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Jun 5, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
May 31, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
May 23, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
May 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lubbock / TX
Mar 30, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 16, 2026.