Hail size 1"
4 E Reese Center Lubbock County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Lubbock
Hail in Lubbock · Sep 15, 2026
Hit 2 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1.5" 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 1.5" ≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 27,452
Ground reports 4 1 hail · 3 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Sep 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Lubbock has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.5 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.5 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 89 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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
Sep 15, 2026 · Lubbock, TX
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lubbock, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 15, 2026 sits in Lubbock's hail record.
This was Lubbock's 13th recorded hail day, arriving 33 days after the Aug 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lubbock at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lubbock: the same system put hail over 169 other tracked cities, 39 of them in Texas. Nearest: Wolfforth (12 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Idalou (13 miles northeast, up to 1"); Slaton (16 miles southeast, 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
4 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
1 reportWind reports
3 reports Wind gust 58 mph
3 WNW Lubbock Lubbock County
“(LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 62 mph
1 NW Lubbock Int. Airpo Lubbock County
“(LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 64 mph
6 W Lubbock Lubbock County
“(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.
Hail was reported over 23 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Reese Center and Lubbock Int. Airpo — beyond Lubbock itself.
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Lubbock roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
27,452 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$329M
Potential roof exposure — 27,452 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 137 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$2.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 27,452 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $5,765 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
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 22, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
3 ground reports 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.