Storm report · Bowie

Hail in Texarkana Apr 29, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Texarkana this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

194

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Texarkana has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

1.9 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
46 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Texarkana 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Texarkana, TX on Apr 29, 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 Apr 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Texarkana, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Texarkana's hail record

This was Texarkana's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Apr 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Texarkana at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Texarkana: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 116 of them in Texas. Nearest: Texarkana (12 miles east, up to 0.5"); Queen City (15 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Atlanta (18 miles south, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Texarkana's Apr 29, 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.

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.

For this storm over Texarkana, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Texarkana roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$2.3M

Potential roof exposure — 194 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 194 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Texarkana on the live map

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Texarkana hail history

8 recorded storm days in Texarkana, TX

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Other storms in Texarkana

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.