Wichita Falls, TX Hail Storm – April 2026

What Happened

A hail storm crossed the Wichita Falls, TX metro on April 15, 2026, with spotter-verified stones up to 2 inches and a long run of NWS hail alerts through late afternoon and evening. The earliest report came at 4:08 PM CDT with 1.25-inch hail and spotter confidence.

The storm remained active for hours. NWS warning-based hail estimates followed at 4:23 PM CDT, 4:37 PM CDT, 4:38 PM CDT, and 4:53 PM CDT, then continued through the evening with repeated 1-inch to 1.75-inch hail calls. Dual-polarization radar later detected 1.25-inch hail at 5:50 PM CDT. The strongest field reports came from multiple North Texas locations outside the core metro, including golf ball hail near Woodson at 5:01 PM CDT, golf ball hail reported by Hraham police near Highway 67 and Medlan Chapen Road at 5:20 PM CDT, ping pong ball hail on the south side of Graham along Highway 16 at 5:27 PM CDT, and golf ball hail reported in Breckenridge at 6:22 PM CDT.

A spotter-verified 2-inch report came in at 6:10 PM CDT with a photo post. By 7:25 PM CDT, NWS warning estimates reached 2 inches again. Later alerts through 10:22 PM CDT still carried 1-inch hail estimates, showing a storm complex that continued to produce hail across the broader warning area into the night.

Damage Assessment

Field reports point to a scattered hail impact pattern across the warning area, with the most detailed observations tied to roads, small towns, and highway corridors. The reports from Woodson, Graham, Jacksboro, and Breckenridge describe large hail reaching the ground in public places and along travel routes, including a viewer photo from south Miller Street near downtown Breckenridge and a Facebook video from the Highway 199 and 281 split southeast of Jacksboro that showed half-dollar hail and 50 to 60 mph winds.

The hail sizes reported on the ground stayed concentrated in the 1.25-inch to 2-inch range. That includes the 1.25-inch mPING report from Breckenridge, the 1.5-inch photo report from Graham, and multiple 1.75-inch spotter reports from Woodson and the Highway 67 corridor. The 2-inch photo report at 6:10 PM CDT gives the clearest upper end of the event.

For property owners, the main concern is roof, gutter, soft metal, and vehicle damage along the paths where spotter reports and radar estimates overlapped. The reports do not describe a single continuous swath of identical hail size. They show multiple hail cores moving through the region and producing large hail at different times and locations.

What Contractors Should Know

This event produced a field-heavy hail response footprint across north-central Texas, with reports spread from the Wichita Falls metro into Graham, Woodson, Breckenridge, and Jacksboro. That kind of distribution usually leads to multiple inspection pockets rather than one compact neighborhood cluster. Crews should look at the confirmed report points first, then expand along the adjacent warning area where radar also carried repeated hail estimates.