JUNE 2, 2026 DFW HAIL STORM: THE VERIFIED REPORT LOG

Straight From The NWS

EVERY VERIFIED HAIL REPORT FROM JUNE 2, 2026

The table below is the National Weather Service Fort Worth office’s local storm report log for the DFW metro on the evening of June 2, 2026 — trained spotters, mPING app submissions and verified public reports, with times in local Central time. We didn’t write these; the NWS did. You can check the raw federal record yourself on the Storm Prediction Center’s report page for June 2, 2026 or through NWS Fort Worth.

Times converted to Central time from the NWS log. The same storm complex also produced verified hail in Kaufman and Johnson counties (Forney, Talty, Alvarado and Venus, up to 1.50″) earlier that afternoon. Source: NWS Fort Worth local storm reports, June 2, 2026.

One honest caveat that matters in both directions: these are point observations. A report exists only where a person stood, measured and submitted one. Hail swaths from this kind of storm are typically miles wide, so a car parked between The Colony City Hall and Lebanon Road — or two streets off SH 114 in Grapevine — was very likely in the same hail that generated the neighboring report. The reverse is also true: dime-size hail at one address doesn’t guarantee damage at another. The log tells you whether to go look. Your hood tells you the rest.

Coin To Damage Translation

WHAT DIME, QUARTER AND EGG-SIZE HAIL ACTUALLY DO TO A CAR

Every size in the June 2 log showed up somewhere in our service area, so here’s the honest translation we use at the estimate bay. Dime-size (0.75″) — what Carrollton, Southlake and Addison logged — usually leaves nothing on steel panels. Sometimes it prints shallow dimples into soft aluminum hoods or roof rails, visible only in low-angle light. If your car caught dime-size and you can’t find a mark in morning sun, you’re probably genuinely fine, and we’ll tell you so.

Nickel to quarter-size (0.88″–1.00″) — The Colony’s first wave, Grapevine, Lavon, Wylie — is the insurance-relevant threshold. Quarter-size stones carry enough energy to dent hoods, roofs and trunk lids, the horizontal panels that take hail square-on. Counts of 30–100 dents per vehicle are routine at this size, and because each dent is shallow with intact paint, this is exactly the damage paintless dent repair was invented for.

Ping-pong to egg-size (1.50″–2.00″) — Balch Springs, and the Lebanon Road corridor in The Colony — is a different animal. Stones this size dent vertical panels too (doors, fenders), crack windshield edges and mirror caps, split plastic trim, and can push a dent deep enough to stretch the metal. Egg-size hail on an aluminum hood — every 2015-and-newer F-150, many Super Dutys and Expeditions — work-hardens the panel around each strike, which makes repair technique matter far more than it does on steel.

The June 2 storm hit after 5 PM on a Monday — commute hour. A lot of the vehicles that took this hail weren’t in driveways; they were on the PGBT, on SH 121, in the Grandscape garages or office lots. If you drove through it and heard it, check the panels even if your home ZIP never appears in the log.

Where It Hit

THE COLONY, CARROLLTON & GRAPEVINE: CITY BY CITY

The Colony was the headline. Two verified reports eighteen minutes apart — nickel-size at City Hall at 6:05 PM, then egg-size near Lebanon Road at 6:23 PM — track a strengthening cell moving northeast across the city. The Lebanon Road corridor cuts through the heart of The Colony’s residential grid, and the evening timing means plenty of commuter cars were still outside. If you park at or around Grandscape or anywhere in The Colony, the 2.00″ report is your reason to walk around the car in low morning light this week.

Grapevine logged quarter-size along SH 114 at 5:38 PM — squarely on the corridor thousands of people drive home from DFW Airport and the Las Colinas office towers. Quarter-size is right at the threshold where hoods and roofs start collecting dents, so Grapevine drivers who were westbound on 114 in that window, or whose cars sat in Main Street or hotel lots, should check the horizontal panels.

Carrollton, Southlake and Addison each logged dime-size between 5:38 and 5:58 PM — below the damage threshold for most steel panels, and we’d rather say that plainly than invite 500 pointless inspections. The check-anyway cases: aluminum-paneled trucks, brand-new leases where even dimples matter at turn-in, and anything that was parked closer to The Colony or Grapevine than to the report point. Carrollton sits directly between the Balch Springs and The Colony report lines, and dime-size at one mPING pin doesn’t rule out quarter-size two neighborhoods over.

Wylie, Lavon and Balch Springs round out the metro log — and the 1.50″ Balch Springs report near I-635 is large enough that anything parked outside in southeast Dallas County that evening deserves a real inspection, not a glance.

The Insurance Side

FILING A CLAIM FOR THE JUNE 2 STORM — EVEN MONTHS LATER

Hail is a comprehensive claim: no fault, no points, nothing on your driving record. Texas rule 28 TAC §5.7016 specifically bars insurers from refusing to renew your personal auto policy solely because of weather-related claims — hail is named in the rule. A single hail claim by itself typically doesn’t surcharge your premium either; the honest math on discounts and storm-year base rates is in our rates guide.

Finding June 2 damage in August, October, or next spring is completely normal — hail dents hide until the first hand-wash, the first low-angle sunset in a parking lot, the trade-in walkaround or the lease-return inspection. Texas policies don’t put a fixed calendar date on comprehensive claims, but they do require “prompt” notice, and the practical rule is simple: the longer you wait, the more room an adjuster has to argue about which storm did it. A dated, written estimate ties your damage to a verified event — this page is the verification. Get the documentation now even if you decide to file later; the full step-by-step is in our Texas hail claim guide.

Your deductible: on approved hail claims we absorb it out of our own margin as a repair credit — the estimate and the bill to your insurer stay 100% honest, which is exactly what keeps deductible assistance legal on Texas auto claims. And the shop choice is yours, not your carrier’s: Tex. Ins. Code §1952.301 says the insurer may not dictate where you repair.

One warning, because it always follows hail: door-knockers and pop-up tents chased this storm the same week it hit. If someone offers to “handle your claim” from a folding table, or wants your deductible in cash while promising to inflate the estimate to cover it, that second part is the textbook definition of insurance fraud under Tex. Penal Code §35.02 — and the crew is usually three states away before the repainted panels start peeling. A shop that’s been at the same Lewisville address since 1978 is a different bet.