Hail size 1"
Keller Tarrant County
“Emergency manager reported multiple 1 inch hailstones around Keller... including Rufe Snow Dr and Bear Creek Pkwy... and 1709 and Keller Smithfield Rd. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in North Richland Hills Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over North Richland Hills this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
45,310
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe most severe storm North Richland Hills 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.
4.2 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 93 /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 North Richland Hills saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over North Richland Hills, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in North Richland Hills's hail record
This was North Richland Hills's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over North Richland Hills at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than North Richland Hills: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Grapevine (6 miles east, up to 0.75"); Keller (6 miles west, up to 0.75"); Irving (12 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from North Richland Hills's Apr 28, 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 1.25"
Keller Tarrant County
“Several social media photos and reports of hail up to half dollar size across Keller from Old Town Keller to Davis Blvd at Bear Creek Pkwy. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Southlake Tarrant County
“Several social media photos of hail up to half dollar size in Southlake. (FWD)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 11 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Keller and Southlake — beyond North Richland Hills itself.
What 0.75" hail means for North Richland Hills roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$544M
Potential roof exposure — 45,310 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
227 jobs
Illustrative work
~$3.4M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over North Richland Hills on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full North Richland Hills storm history — this Apr 28, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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North Richland Hills hail history
← All hail in North Richland Hills 2 recorded storm days in North Richland Hills, TX
Other storms in North Richland Hills
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 2, 2026.