Hail in Galveston, TX on May 28, 2024
Radar-estimated up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) over Galveston between 3:04 PM and 3:18 PM, from 3 separate radar hail signatures inside the town. No spotter or NOAA ground report was filed inside the town that day, which is common: most hail falls where nobody is measuring it.
What ping-pong ball-size hail does to a roof
Hail in this range commonly bruises asphalt shingles and knocks off the protective granules. The roof may look fine from the street and still have lost years of life; soft metals like vents and gutters usually show the dents first. Radar describes the storm, not your shingles: the only way to know what a particular roof took is an inspection. Most homeowner policies set a deadline for reporting storm damage, so check your policy.
Every home inside a storm's radar footprint, scored by roof age, material and hail history, sold to a few roofers only so you are not the twentieth truck on the street.
Other Texas towns hit on May 28
- Bellevue, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 3.5" (teacup size)
- Terrell, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 3.5" (teacup size)
- Houston, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 3.25" (teacup size) · 6 reports
- Conroe, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 3" (teacup size)
- Dallas, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 3" (teacup size) · 1 report
- Plano, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 3" (teacup size)
- Combine, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball size)
- Frisco, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball size)
- Hackberry, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball size)
- Seagoville, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball size)
- The Woodlands, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball size)
- Shenandoah, TX · May 28, 2024radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size)
Other hail days in Galveston
- July 14, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- June 14, 2025radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- May 7, 2025radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- May 13, 2024radar up to 2" (hen egg size)
- March 15, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball size)
- December 9, 2023radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size)
- December 1, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- May 9, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
Radar sizes are estimates from NEXRAD hail signatures (NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory) for the largest stones in a storm cell, not a measurement at any one home. Ground reports are National Weather Service local storm reports and the NOAA Storm Events Database, as filed. Town-level data only; this page shows no addresses and no homeowner information.