Hail in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, April 27, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 28 hail reports in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, April 27, 2026, between 7:18 pm and 8:50 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 3.50 inches at 1 N Commerce (Hunt County) at 8:00 pm. NOAA radar flagged 448 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 203 rated a 100% chance of hail and 247 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 11 places in Collin, Dallas, Hunt and Rockwall counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Buckingham 5 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Fate 4 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Richardson 4 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Rowlett 4 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Commerce 2 reports, up to 3.50 in
- Murphy 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Quinlan 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Rockwall 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Celeste 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mclendon-Chisholm 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Saint Paul 1 report, up to 1.25 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:18 pm | 1.00 | 4 SW Buckingham | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:18 pm | 1.00 | Buckingham | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:18 pm | 1.25 | Buckingham | Dallas | Delayed report. Hail between 1 and 1.25 inches fell in near East Spring Valley Road and South Lois Lane in Richardson. Time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 7:19 pm | 1.00 | Buckingham | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:20 pm | 1.25 | 3 SE Richardson | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:22 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Richardson | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:26 pm | 1.75 | 1 SE Richardson | Dallas | 1.75 inch hail measured in Richardson. Via email report. (FWD) |
| 7:29 pm | 1.25 | 2 SE Richardson | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:34 pm | 1.00 | Murphy | Collin | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:37 pm | 1.00 | 4 SE Buckingham | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:38 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Murphy | Collin | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:43 pm | 1.25 | Saint Paul | Collin | (FWD) |
| 7:45 pm | 1.00 | 2 SW Rowlett | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:47 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Rowlett | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 7:52 pm | 2.00 | Rowlett | Dallas | Time estimated. (FWD) |
| 7:56 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Commerce | Hunt | (FWD) |
| 7:57 pm | 1.25 | 1 NW Rowlett | Dallas | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 8:00 pm | 3.50 | 1 N Commerce | Hunt | From a received photo. Hail size estimated. Time estimated from radar. (FWD) |
| 8:10 pm | 1.75 | 1 S Rockwall | Rockwall | (FWD) |
| 8:10 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSE Fate | Rockwall | Exact Hail size was unknown... but the hail was large enough to leave holes in a metal roof on a property near the Brookshires in Fate. (FWD) |
| 8:12 pm | 1.00 | Celeste | Hunt | (FWD) |
| 8:21 pm | 1.75 | 1 SW Rockwall | Rockwall | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 8:21 pm | 2.00 | 2 SE Fate | Rockwall | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 8:22 pm | 2.00 | Mclendon-Chisholm | Rockwall | Delayed report. trained spotter reported 2 inch hail near McLendon-Chisholm. Time estimated by radar. Time estimated by radar. (FWD) |
| 8:22 pm | 1.50 | 1 SE Fate | Rockwall | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 8:23 pm | 1.50 | Fate | Rockwall | Report from mPING. (FWD) |
| 8:45 pm | 1.50 | Quinlan | Hunt | Time estimated. (FWD) |
| 8:50 pm | 1.75 | 1 ESE Quinlan | Hunt | Spotter network report. (FWD) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
448 signatures from 5 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 203 were rated 100% and 87 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDAL | 176 | 69 | 94 | 37 | 3.75 in | 5:11 pm | 8:59 pm |
| KDFW | 131 | 44 | 65 | 4 | 2.25 in | 5:18 pm | 9:03 pm |
| KFWS | 120 | 76 | 74 | 37 | 3.50 in | 6:29 pm | 9:01 pm |
| KSHV | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2.75 in | 7:26 pm | 8:51 pm |
| KDYX | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in | 6:52 pm | 8:47 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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