Jacksonville, TX Hail Storm – October 2025

What Happened

A severe hail storm moved through Jacksonville, TX, on October 18, 2025, producing a peak confirmed hail size of 1.75 inches and multiple rounds of radar-detected hail through the afternoon and evening. The event began early, with a 2:24 PM CDT alert for 1-inch hail, then intensified again by 3:13 PM CDT when radar and spotter verification supported 1.5-inch hail.

Alerts continued to stack through late afternoon. Radar confidence held at 1 inch at 3:38 PM CDT, then spotter-verified reports followed at 4:21 PM CDT, 4:27 PM CDT, 4:30 PM CDT, and 4:48 PM CDT. By 4:30 PM CDT, radar and spotter data supported 1.25-inch hail. Later in the evening, dual-polarization radar detected 1.25-inch hail at 6:48 PM CDT, then 1.5-inch hail at 7:30 PM CDT.

The strongest radar signal came at 7:47 PM CDT, when dual-polarization radar detected 1.75-inch hail. Additional verified alerts followed at 8:13 PM CDT and 9:36 PM CDT with 1.5-inch hail, then several 1-inch detections carried the event into the night. The last alert came at 11:04 PM CDT with 1-inch hail from dual-polarization radar.

Field reports were spread well beyond Jacksonville and showed a long-lived severe weather corridor across the region. Around 3:20 PM CDT, a spotter-verified report noted trees blocking AR 29 north of Lewisville. By late afternoon, law enforcement reported trees and powerlines down north of Many, near Coushatta, and in multiple locations across the broader storm path. Reports also noted trees down in and around Homer, along LA 124, and 6 miles outside Center.

Damage Assessment

The field reports point to scattered tree and powerline damage rather than one isolated impact point. Most reports came from law enforcement and were described as trees down, powerlines down, or both. The damage was reported in multiple towns and along rural road corridors, including north of Lewisville, north of Many, north of Coushatta, Homer, Center, and along LA 124.

One report stood out from the rest. At 5:34 PM CDT, a spotter-verified report described a fatal lightning strike to an elevated deer stand southeast of the Weldon community, just south of Highway 2. The report said the stand caught fire after the strike. This was not a hail report, but it sits in the same storm period and marks the most severe ground-truth observation tied to the broader weather event.

For Jacksonville itself, the radar picture shows repeated hail detection over a long window rather than a brief pulse. The sequence included both dual-polarization radar detections and radar plus spotter-verified alerts, with several 1-inch and 1.5-inch hail estimates before the 1.75-inch peak. That pattern supports a hail-producing storm with repeated updraft strength during the afternoon and evening.

What Contractors Should Know

Work the Jacksonville area as part of a wider East Texas hail corridor, not as a single-point claim cluster. The alert sequence ran from mid-afternoon into late evening, and the strongest hail detection came after 7:30 PM CDT. Roofs, vents, gutters, soft metals, and exterior trim should be checked in the first pass, with special attention to properties that also sit under mature trees.