Hail size 1.75"
7 W Appleby Nacogdoches County
“Golfball size hail fell near the intersection of FM 698 and CR 819 near the Central Heights community. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Nacogdoches Mar 15, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 39 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" 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
1,979
Ground reports
5
5 hailThe most severe storm Nacogdoches 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.
7.4 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 66 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Nacogdoches 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
39
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
2"
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Nacogdoches's hail record
This was Nacogdoches's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Mar 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Nacogdoches at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Nacogdoches: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 89 of them in Texas. Nearest: Chireno (18 miles east, up to 3"); Etoile (19 miles east, up to 3"); Cushing (23 miles northwest, up to 3.25").
These maps are stills from Nacogdoches's Mar 15, 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
5 reports Hail size 2.5"
Cushing Nacogdoches County
“Pictures were posted to social media of golf ball to tennis ball size hail that fell in Cushing. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Nacogdoches Nacogdoches County
“Quarter size hail reported across several locations on the northside of Nacogdoches. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Chireno Nacogdoches County
“Photo of near half dollar size hail in the Chireno community via KTRE-TV social media. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 N Nacogdoches Nacogdoches County
“Quarter size hail fell on the north side of Nacogdoches. (SHV)”
— 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 southeast at roughly 40 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 54 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Appleby, Cushing, and Chireno — beyond Nacogdoches itself.
What 3" hail means for Nacogdoches 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
$24M
Potential roof exposure — 1,979 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
10 jobs
Illustrative work
~$150K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Nacogdoches hail history
← All hail in Nacogdoches 10 recorded storm days in Nacogdoches, TX
Other storms in Nacogdoches
Jul 12, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 11, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 1, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 24, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 7, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jan 9, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
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.