Hail size 5"
2 S Camp Wood Edwards County
“Picture on X. Time estimated from radar. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Uvalde Apr 29, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 3.5" aloft. At 3.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3.5"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
891
Ground reports
7
7 hailThe most severe storm Uvalde 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.
8.2 /10
- Hail size
- 88 /100
- Homes exposed
- 59 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Uvalde 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
0
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
3.5"
Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Uvalde's hail record
This was Uvalde's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Apr 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Uvalde at 3.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Uvalde: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 116 of them in Texas. Nearest: Knippa (6 miles east, up to 0.75"); Camp Wood (33 miles northwest, up to 3.5"); Rocksprings (50 miles northwest, up to 2").
These maps are stills from Uvalde'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.
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
7 reports Hail size 2.75"
2 S Camp Wood Real County
“Picture on X of baseball size hail. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
3 S Camp Wood Real County
“Report from mPING Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
4 S Camp Wood Uvalde County
“Report from mPING Tea Cup (3.00 in.). (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3.5"
4 N Montell Uvalde County
“Report from mPING Baseball++ (3.50 in.). (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3.5"
3 S Camp Wood Uvalde County
“Video received of 3 to 3.5 inch diameter measured hail. (EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 WSW Concan Uvalde County
“(EWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 15 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 69 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Camp Wood, Montell, and Concan — beyond Uvalde itself.
What 3.5" hail means for Uvalde 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
$11M
Potential roof exposure — 891 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K
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.
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Uvalde hail history
← All hail in Uvalde 9 recorded storm days in Uvalde, TX
Other storms in Uvalde
Jul 15, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 26, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1" Estimated 1.25"
1
ground report 
May 19, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 14, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
3.25" Estimated 3.25"
4
ground reports 
Mar 7, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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 3, 2026.