Hail in San Saba · May 24, 2026
Convective day · May 24, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm San Saba 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
- 60 /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 San Saba 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 24, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over San Saba, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 24, 2026 sits in San Saba's hail record.
This was San Saba's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the May 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over San Saba at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than San Saba: the same system put hail over 200 other tracked cities, 76 of them in Texas. Nearest: Richland Springs (6 miles west, up to 0.75"); Brownwood (18 miles northwest, up to 1"); Mullin (24 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 San Saba 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over San Saba for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for San Saba 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
$12M
Potential roof exposure — 965 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 5 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$75K
Close just 0.5% of the 965 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 $203 on top of the $150 plan.
San Saba hail history
Other storms in San Saba.
Aug 28, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface May 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 10, 2026
4"
Estimated-size surface Apr 30, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 18, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 12, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
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