Hail in Houston, TX on May 1, 2026
Radar-estimated up to 2.75" (baseball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 2.75" (baseball size) over Houston between 12:01 AM and 12:29 AM, from 5 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 baseball-size hail does to a roof
Hail this large routinely cracks and punctures asphalt shingles, dents metal vents and gutters, and can break skylights. Damage is often visible from the ground, but bruised shingles that look intact can still fail early. 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 1
- Pearland, TX · May 1, 2026radar up to 3.25" (teacup size) · 4 reports
- El Lago, TX · May 1, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Pasadena, TX · May 1, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Taylor Lake Village, TX · May 1, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Kenedy, TX · May 1, 2026ground reports · 1 report
- Missouri City, TX · May 1, 2026ground reports · 1 report
- Sugar Land, TX · May 1, 2026ground reports · 1 report
- Victoria, TX · May 1, 2026ground reports · 2 reports
- Tivoli, TX · May 1, 2026ground reports · 1 report
Other hail days in Houston
- September 11, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- August 28, 2026radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size) · 1 report
- July 7, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- July 6, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- July 5, 2026radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- June 19, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- June 2, 2026radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size) · 2 reports
- May 9, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar 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.