/ Storm field report · Hockley

Hail in Ropesville · Sep 15, 2026

Hit 2 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ropesville that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

7-day free trial in the iPhone app. No card required to start.

For iPhone. Android coming soon.

Open this storm on the live map → Start free trial

Web trial: 7 days free. Card required. $150/month after the trial unless cancelled.

Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 0

Ground reports 1 1 wind

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Ropesville has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 1.0 / 10

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

1.0 /10

Peak hail signal: 13 /100
Homes exposed: 0 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Ropesville saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 15, 2026 · Ropesville, TX

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 map of the storm over Ropesville, TX on Sep 15, 2026 — 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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Ropesville, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 15, 2026 sits in Ropesville's hail record.

This was Ropesville's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 77 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ropesville at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ropesville: the same system put hail over 169 other tracked cities, 39 of them in Texas. Nearest: Wolfforth (9 miles northeast, up to 1.5"); Meadow (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Levelland (15 miles northwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Ropesville 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

1 report filed with the NWS

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.

Wind reports

1 report

Wind gust 71 mph

6 S Wolfforth Lubbock County

10:57 PM UTC

“(LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Reports came from Wolfforth — beyond Ropesville itself.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Ropesville roofs.

Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Ropesville hail history

4 recorded storm days in Ropesville, TX

← All hail in Ropesville

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Ropesville, TX on Jun 30, 2026

Estimated-size surface

Storm date Ropesville / TX

The next storm won’t wait for you.

Set your territory and alerts today. When hail hits, use Overview to choose your streets and get moving.