Hail size 1"
Wichita Falls Wichita County
“Wichita County Skywarn reports Quarters in downtown Wichita Falls. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Wichita
Hail in Wichita Falls · Apr 15, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wichita Falls that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 9,414
Ground reports 3 3 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Apr 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Wichita Falls has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 79 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Wichita Falls saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 15, 2026 · Wichita Falls, TX
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wichita Falls, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Wichita Falls's hail record.
This was Wichita Falls's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Apr 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wichita Falls at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wichita Falls: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Texas. Nearest: Scotland (18 miles south, up to 1"); Holliday (22 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Henrietta (24 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Wichita Falls 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
3 reports filed with the NWS
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
3 reports Hail size 1"
6 NW Lake Arrowhead Clay County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
6 SW Jolly Clay County
“Additional reports of Quarter sized hail and 3 inch tree limbs down at 1954 and Pocahontas. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 47 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Lake Arrowhead and Jolly — beyond Wichita Falls itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Wichita Falls roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
9,414 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$113M
Potential roof exposure — 9,414 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 47 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$705K
Close just 0.5% of the 9,414 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.
Claim window
April 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $1,977 on top of the $150 plan.
Wichita Falls hail history
Other storms in Wichita Falls.
11 recorded storm days in Wichita Falls, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Jul 5, 2026
3" Signatures 3" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Jun 18, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Jun 11, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
May 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
May 8, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Apr 28, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Apr 26, 2026
3.75" Signatures 3.75" Estimated 2.5"
6 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Apr 25, 2026
3.5" Signatures 3.5" Estimated 2.25"
11 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Apr 1, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita Falls / TX
Mar 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.