Hail size 1"
3 NW Northcrest McLennan County
“Report from mPING Quarter 1.00 in. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Waco Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Waco this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
30,481
Ground reports
8
7 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Waco 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
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 90 /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 Waco 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 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
3"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Waco, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Waco's hail record
This was Waco's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the Apr 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Waco at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Waco: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Elm Mott (7 miles north, up to 2.25"); Axtell (11 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Riesel (14 miles southeast, up to 3").
These maps are stills from Waco's Apr 28, 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"
Hallsburg McLennan County
“Delayed report from Tuesday night April 28th. Numerous social media photos showed hail from golfball to baseball size fell in Hallsburg. Significant damage occurred to (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
1 SE Bellmead McLennan County
“Report from mPING Ping Pong Ball 1.50 in. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 E Northcrest McLennan County
“Report from mPING Quarter 1.00 in. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 N Northcrest McLennan County
“Quarter sized hail was reported in Elm Mott. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
1 NE Lacy-Lakeview McLennan County
“Report from mPING: Tennis Ball 2.50 in. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.25"
2 WNW Hallsburg McLennan County
“2.25 inch diameter hail reported near Tradinghouse Lake. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 72 mph
4 NW Waco McLennan County
“A 72 mph wind gust was measured at Waco Regional Airport. (FWD)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 25 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Northcrest, Hallsburg, Bellmead, and Lacy-Lakeview — beyond Waco itself.
What 3" hail means for Waco 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
$366M
Potential roof exposure — 30,481 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
152 jobs
Illustrative work
~$2.3M
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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Waco hail history
← All hail in Waco 3 recorded storm days in Waco, TX
Other storms in Waco
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.