Hail in Whitesboro · May 26, 2026
Convective day · May 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Whitesboro has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Whitesboro 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Whitesboro, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 26, 2026 sits in Whitesboro's hail record.
This was Whitesboro's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the May 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Whitesboro at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Whitesboro: the same system put hail over 259 other tracked cities, 139 of them in Texas. Nearest: Howe (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Celina (21 miles south, up to 0.5"); Thackerville (27 miles northwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Whitesboro 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
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Whitesboro for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Whitesboro roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Whitesboro hail history
Other storms in Whitesboro.
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 9, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
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