Hail size 1"
1 N Sarita Kenedy County
“A quarter inch hail was reported by the public in Sarita... TX. The report was from a photo posted onto our NWSChat 2.0/Slack page. Time radar estimated. (BRO)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Sarita May 22, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Sarita this day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
233
Ground reports
1
1 hailSarita's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.2 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Sarita saw the hail — from two instruments
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
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.
Max size
2.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Sarita, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 22, 2026 sits in Sarita's hail record
This was Sarita's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sarita at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sarita: the same system put hail over 417 other tracked cities, 224 of them in Texas. Nearest: Riviera (14 miles north, up to 1.25"); Falcon Heights (90 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Runge (118 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Sarita's May 22, 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.
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.
Hail reports
1 reportWhat 2.5" hail means for Sarita roofs
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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$2.8M
Potential roof exposure — 233 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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.
Track hail over Sarita on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Sarita storm history — this May 22, 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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Sarita hail history
← All hail in Sarita 1 recorded storm day in Sarita, TX
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 2, 2026.