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Hail in Skellytown · Jul 4, 2026

NEXRAD logged 29 hail signatures up to 3.25"; the estimated-size surface reached 2.25" aloft. At 3.25" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 3.25" ≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 953
Ground reports 2 1 hail · 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jul 4, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Skellytown has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 6.9 / 10
Storm severity score

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

6.9 /10
Peak hail signal
81 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
60 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
33 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Skellytown saw the hail — from two instruments

Jul 4, 2026 · Skellytown, 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Skellytown, TX on Jul 4, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 3.25" Detections 29
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Skellytown, TX on Jul 4, 2026 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.

Max size 2.25"

The storm in context

Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Skellytown's hail record.

This was Skellytown's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jun 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Skellytown at 3.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Skellytown: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 33 of them in Texas. Nearest: Borger (13 miles northwest, up to 3.25"); Fritch (22 miles west, up to 3"); Sanford (23 miles west, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Skellytown 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

2 reports 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.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1"
2 ENE Borger Hutchinson County

“(AMA)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind reports

1 report
Wind gust 65 mph
7 E Borger Hutchinson County

“Mesonet station BGXT2 Borger 7E (WT-MESO). (AMA)”

— 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.

Hail was reported over 42 minutes, from to .

Reports came from Borger — beyond Skellytown itself.

Severe hail signal

What 3.25" hail means for Skellytown roofs.

Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

953 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$11M

Potential roof exposure — 953 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 953 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

July 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $200 on top of the $150 plan.

Skellytown hail history

6 recorded storm days in Skellytown, TX

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 27, 2026.