Storm report · Motley

Hail in Quitaque Jul 31, 2026

Hit 3 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 21 hail signatures up to 1.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1.5"

≈ ping-pong ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

64

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Quitaque 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.

3.2 /10
Hail size
38 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
36 /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 Quitaque 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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Quitaque, TX on Jul 31, 2026

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 1.5" Detections 21
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Quitaque, TX on Jul 31, 2026

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 0.75"
The storm in context

Where Jul 31, 2026 sits in Quitaque's hail record

This was Quitaque's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Quitaque at 1.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Quitaque: the same system put hail over 238 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Texas. Nearest: Lockney (24 miles southwest, up to 1"); Childress (43 miles east, up to 2.5"); Plainview (48 miles west, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Quitaque's Jul 31, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Quitaque. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.5" hail means for Quitaque roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$768K

Potential roof exposure — 64 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Quitaque on the live map

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Quitaque hail history

5 recorded storm days in Quitaque, TX

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Other storms in Quitaque

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.