The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Riesel this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
3"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft5,455
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3 hailOverview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Riesel, so there is one map to show, not two.
This was Riesel's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Riesel at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Riesel: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Mart (5 miles northeast, up to 2.75"); Groesbeck (12 miles east, up to 3.25"); Waco (14 miles northwest, up to 3").
These maps are stills from Riesel'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.
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.
“Delayed report from Tuesday night April 28th. Numerous social media photos showed hail from golfball to baseball size fell in Hallsburg. Significant damage occurred to (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Facebook photo showed tennis ball size hail fell on CR 142 between Perry and Otto. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“2.25 inch diameter hail reported near Tradinghouse Lake. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail was reported over 24 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Hallsburg — beyond Riesel itself.
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.
$65M
Potential roof exposure — 5,455 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Riesel 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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3 recorded storm days in Riesel, TX
