Hail in Houston on Friday, May 1, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Houston on Friday, May 1, 2026, between 12:00 am and 12:31 am CDT, in 3 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at First Colony (Fort Bend County) at 12:00 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,226 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 46 rated a 100% chance of hail and 42 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Brazoria, Fort Bend and Harris counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Pearland 4 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Fresno 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Brookside Village 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- First Colony 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Missouri City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 1.50 | First Colony | Fort Bend | Report of estimated ping pong sized hail near the intersection of Austin Parkway and Sweetwater Blvd. (HGX) |
| 12:05 am | 1.25 | Missouri City | Fort Bend | Reported near the intersection of Turtle Creek Dr and Point Clear Dr. Large volume of nickel sized hail... but largest stones were over 1 inch but less than 1.5 inches. (HGX) |
| 12:11 am | 1.00 | 3 NE Fresno | Brazoria | Corrects previous hail report from 3 NE Fresno. A news station published a story sharing information regarding damage to schools in Alvin. The story mentioned that Alvi (HGX) |
| 12:12 am | 1.00 | 4 NE Fresno | Brazoria | A news station published a story sharing information regarding damage to schools in Alvin. The story mentioned that Alvin ISD superintendent reported roof damage to Mar (HGX) |
| 12:15 am | 1.00 | 2 WSW Brookside Village | Brazoria | Report of 1 inch hail near the intersection of Cullen Blvd and Hawk Rd. (HGX) |
| 12:26 am | 1.25 | 4 ENE Pearland | Harris | Report of hail near the intersection of Scarsdale Blvd and Beamer Rd in SE Harris County. (HGX) |
| 12:28 am | 1.00 | 4 E Pearland | Harris | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). Corroborated with nearby spotter reports. (HGX) |
| 12:28 am | 1.00 | 2 N Pearland | Brazoria | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). Corroborated with nearby spotter reports. (HGX) |
| 12:31 am | 1.25 | 3 NE Pearland | Harris | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). Corroborated with nearby spotter reports. (HGX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,226 signatures from 8 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; 46 were rated 100% and 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHOU | 394 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:01 am | 4:03 pm |
| KIAH | 255 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:01 am | 5:24 pm |
| KHGX | 221 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 3.25 in | 12:01 am | 4:08 pm |
| KGRK | 120 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2.50 in | 12:02 am | 3:29 pm |
| KLCH | 98 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2.50 in | 12:03 am | 3:32 pm |
| KEWX | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 12:23 am | 3:36 pm |
| KPOE | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 12:20 am | 3:36 pm |
| KCRP | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 3:31 pm | 3:44 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Houston when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 9 counties (Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston, Waller, Liberty, Chambers and Austin counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.