Hail size 1.5"
2 SW Walnut Springs Bosque County
“Social media report of ping pong ball size hail on FM 927 near Walnut Springs. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Walnut Springs Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Walnut Springs this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
767
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Walnut Springs 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.
3.9 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 58 /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 Walnut Springs saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Walnut Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Walnut Springs's hail record
This was Walnut Springs's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Apr 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Walnut Springs at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Walnut Springs: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Texas. Nearest: Meridian (18 miles south, up to 1.5"); Granbury (23 miles northeast, up to 2.75"); Rio Vista (27 miles east, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Walnut Springs'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
1 reportWhat 1.5" hail means for Walnut Springs roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$9.2M
Potential roof exposure — 767 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.
Track hail over Walnut Springs on the live map
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Walnut Springs hail history
← All hail in Walnut Springs 5 recorded storm days in Walnut Springs, TX
Other storms in Walnut Springs
Jun 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 18, 2026
0.75" Signatures 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 2, 2026.