THE DFW HAIL STORM LOG
Every damaging hail event in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro, logged with National Weather Service verified reports — the date, the cities, the stone sizes, and what each one means for your car and your claim. When a storm rolls through, the event page goes up within days, and it stays up for the driver who finds the dents six months later and needs to prove which storm did it.
This is a running log of DFW hail events built from National Weather Service storm reports — verified dates, cities and stone sizes, plus the claim guidance for each storm. In March–June 2025 the NWS Fort Worth office logged hail on 32 separate days, 12 of them dropping hail inside Denton, Dallas, Tarrant or Collin County; the 2026 season ran 24 hail days with 11 inside those four core counties, topping out at 4.50-inch stones on April 28. If you’re here to answer “was there hail at my address on date X,” start with the event log below or check the federal record yourself — we show you how.
- What this log is: one page per verified DFW hail event — NWS report tables, affected cities, size-to-damage translation, claim windows.
- 2025 season (Mar–Jun): 32 hail days, 439 NWS reports, largest stone 4.50″ (May 1). 2026: 24 hail days, 342 reports, largest 4.50″ (Apr 28).
- Late claims are normal: these pages exist so a dent found in October can still be tied to a June storm with a federal record.
- Hail is a comprehensive claim: not at fault, and 28 TAC §5.7016 bars nonrenewal solely over weather claims.
The Log
VERIFIED DFW HAIL EVENTS
June 2, 2026 · Monday Evening
The Colony 2.00″ Egg-Size Hail — Carrollton, Grapevine, Southlake & Addison
Largest verified stone: 2.00″ near Lebanon Rd in The Colony at 6:23 PM. Quarter-size along SH 114 in Grapevine, ping-pong-size in Balch Springs, dime-size in Carrollton, Southlake and Addison. Nine metro NWS reports between 3:40 and 6:25 PM.
Full report log & claim guide →April 25–28, 2026 · Four-Day Outbreak
195 NWS Reports In Four Days — Azle & Cockrell Hill 3.00″, Richardson, Rowlett, Keller & Southlake
Five rounds on four calendar days: west Tarrant hammered Saturday night, Fort Worth and Dallas County past midnight, the US-75 corridor at dawn (4.00″ Trenton), Richardson–Rockwall Monday evening, and Keller/Southlake clipped Tuesday before a 4.50″ stone near Godley — the outbreak’s largest.
Full report log & claim guide →More events are being added, working backward through the 2025–2026 seasons — and every future DFW hail storm gets its page within days of the NWS reports landing. If the date you need isn’t here yet, the next section shows you how to pull the federal record yourself, or just call us — we can look a date up in the NWS log while you’re on the phone.
Don’t Take Our Word For It
HOW TO CHECK IF HAIL HIT YOUR ADDRESS ON ANY DATE
Every hail report in this log comes from the same public, federal source your insurance adjuster uses — and you can read it yourself in about two minutes. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center publishes a report page for every calendar day: go to spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports, pick the date, and read the hail table — each row is a time, location, size and county logged by the NWS Fort Worth office. Two things to know when reading it: times are listed in UTC (subtract 5 hours for Texas daylight time), and the “day” runs from 7 AM to 7 AM, so a late-night storm can appear on the previous day’s page.
The reports are point observations — a stone was measured there, at that minute. Hail swaths run miles wide, so treat a report within a few miles of your address as a yes-go-look, not a maybe. And the absence of a report proves less than people think: plenty of real hail falls where nobody submits one, especially overnight. If your panels say hail and the log says nothing, the dents still win the argument — that’s what the dated photo-and-estimate routine is for.
Why we built this log anyway: SPC pages are raw data — no city context, no damage translation, no claim guidance, UTC timestamps. Each event page here does that translation once, properly, so a driver searching “was there hail in The Colony on June 2” gets an answer a human can use.
Original Data · NWS Fort Worth Reports
THE DFW HAIL SEASON BY THE NUMBERS
We pulled every hail report the NWS Fort Worth office logged for March through June, the heart of North Texas hail season, and counted. Not marketing numbers — report-log arithmetic anyone can reproduce from the SPC archive.
Counted from NWS Fort Worth local storm reports, March 1–June 30 of each year. Days are local calendar days; “core county” = Denton, Dallas, Tarrant or Collin.
Read those numbers the way an insurer does: in both of the last two springs, hail landed somewhere in the four core DFW counties roughly every other week of the season — and both seasons produced at least one stone bigger than a baseball. That’s why comprehensive coverage matters here, why storm-year base rates drift up across whole ZIP codes whether you file or not, and why a shop that’s been fixing North Texas hail at the same address since 1978 keeps a log like this one.
FOUND DENTS AND DON’T KNOW WHICH STORM?
Bring it in. We’ll match the damage to the log, count every dent under proper lighting, and put it in writing — free.
After The Next Storm
THE FIRST 72 HOURS CHECKLIST
Photograph before you wash
Dated wide shots of every panel plus close-ups in low-angle light. Dirt rings around fresh dents actually help show impact points — wash after the photos, not before.
Check glass edges and trim, not just the hood
Windshield borders, mirror caps, plastic cowls and roof rails crack before steel dents. Glass damage changes the repair plan and sometimes the claim type.
Get the written dent count before you file
The estimate-versus-deductible math is the whole filing decision. Ten free minutes under PDR lighting gives you the number; then file — or don’t — on facts.
Ignore the door-knockers
Crews that materialize after every storm offering to “waive” your deductible by inflating the estimate are describing insurance fraud (Tex. Penal Code §35.02). A permanent local shop covers your deductible the legal way — out of its own margin, on an honest invoice.
Remember: the shop choice is yours
Tex. Ins. Code §1952.301 — your insurer cannot dictate where you repair. “We have a preferred shop” is a suggestion, not a rule, and you can read our step-by-step Texas hail claim guide before you make a single call.
From Our Shop Floor
HAIL REPAIR DONE RIGHT
A real repair from our Lewisville floor — an aluminum F-150 hood, the panel hail hits first and hardest. Drag the slider.
Before
After
Aluminum F-150 Hood — Hail PDR
Work-hardened aluminum needs the right technique — this hood kept its factory finish
Storm Log Questions