Storm report · Willacy

Hail in Lyford May 30, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lyford this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

190

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Lyford 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.

4.5 /10
Hail size
56 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
46 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Lyford saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Lyford, TX on May 30, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 2.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 30, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lyford, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where May 30, 2026 sits in Lyford's hail record

This was Lyford's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the May 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lyford at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lyford: the same system put hail over 541 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Texas. Nearest: Harlingen (9 miles southeast, up to 2.25"); Raymondville (10 miles east, up to 2.25"); Rio Hondo (14 miles southeast, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Lyford's May 30, 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.

Ground reports

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.

For this storm over Lyford, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Lyford 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

$2.3M

Potential roof exposure — 190 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 190 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.
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 Lyford on the live map

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Lyford hail history

10 recorded storm days in Lyford, TX

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Other storms in Lyford

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.