Hail in Robert Lee · May 19, 2026
Convective day · May 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Robert Lee has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Robert Lee 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Robert Lee, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 19, 2026 sits in Robert Lee's hail record.
This was Robert Lee's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the May 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Robert Lee at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Robert Lee: the same system put hail over 263 other tracked cities, 151 of them in Texas. Nearest: Maryneal (27 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Miles (32 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); San Angelo (40 miles south, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Robert Lee storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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 Robert Lee. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Robert Lee roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,115 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 6 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$90K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,115 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.
Claim window
May 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $234 on top of the $150 plan.
Robert Lee hail history
Other storms in Robert Lee.
Estimated-size surface Sep 4, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 10, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 18, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 1, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 6, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Feb 13, 2026
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