Looking bad.

This could be really bad prayers for people in FT
worth area….

Crap. Right next to me. But thankfully looks to have broken up just as it got next to Saginaw/Lake Worth area. Sirens were going off for quite awhile

We took shelter as well being on the edge of the warning. But I think we are good. Office may have gotten hit by hail though

Damage 2 miles south of Springtown, Texas on Highway 51 @NWSFortWorth #txwx pic.twitter.com/4JvR9lpuN6

— Kyle G (@KyleStormChaser) April 26, 2026

Sitting under a bridge in White Settlement until this hail clears.

FTAG 2000 said:

---

Man prosper peeps. That bolt from the blue about an hour ago, thought I was a gonner.

Was under our metal roofed outdoor patio firing up the smoker. Felt the hair on back of my neck stand up. Ducked to ground. Bolt hit approximately a half mile from our house.

Gonna fire up the smoker in the morning after that one. Took a heavy bourbon pour to stop the shaking after that.

---

We had lightning and thunder starting around 8pm. 70 miles ahead of that storm. Crazy super cell.

We were driving home when one went off around 8:30ish and that sucker might have been the thickest bolt I've ever seen cross the sky and it went for miles.

The big chunk I was expecting seems to have evaporated right before it hit. Been off and on sprinkles and hope it stays at that. Still going strong central and southern Dallas it appears though.

Sirens just went off again in north Fort Worth. Large hail

Thought I dodged it.

I didn't.

We just got hammered with hail

Where you at?

Not a drop in far west Plano. Probably because I set watering skip for this morning.

Aggie1944s Kid said:

---

Sitting under a bridge in White Settlement until this hail clears.

---

On a highway?

Damn, Runaway Bay got hit hard, damage looks bad.

We got a ton of rain and golf ball hail. Generally all is fine here.

Did my annual "how fast can you clear out the garage to make space for wife's car" exercise.

ChoppinDs40 said:

---

Where you at?

---

NW Fort Worth near eagle mountain lake.

3 separate hail events, all progressively worse. That was not fun. Never been in a storm like that before

How was the wind? Trees down?

I assume your roof is toast?

Under it. However there were cars on 820 stopped under bridges on the shoulder and hwy lanes.

Scary. Just curious where you got stuck waiting it out.

Oof...my office sent photos of the hail, I havn't seen anything like this in a while. 200,000+ structures were hit. By all standards, this is big. This will be a multi-year restoration. We had something like this near Hondo a few years ago, but not as extensive. It totaled nearly everything that it was on top of.

Looks like it's going to be a good Christmas at the Jason_Roofer house (nm, I see you are down in Medina County).

Where was the recent damage in Hondo; my family lives around there and it seems like every 10-15 years their windows get blown out by a major hail storm.

Bunch of people are about to get screwed by their insurance companies

Was flying into DFW from IAD last night. That storm off in the distance was a sight to behold. Got stuck on the ground about 50 feet from the gate for an hour due to what seemed like nonstop lightning

Roofs depreciate

ChoppinDs40 said:

---

How was the wind? Trees down?

I assume your roof is toast?

---

Wind was intense at times. I'm sure the roof sustained damage. Due to the angle of my house and how the hail was falling, my wife's car outside came out relatively ok thankfully. Few small hood dents

It's disgusting outside.

Ag CPA said:

---

Looks like it's going to be a good Christmas at the Jason_Roofer house (nm, I see you are down in Medina County).

Where was the recent damage in Hondo; my family lives around there and it seems like every 10-15 years their windows get blown out by a major hail storm.

---

It will be a 'regular' Christmas. I am not a 'high volume, pump it through the system" guy. Realistically, there are only so many roofs I can handle in a given year and some take a lot of time. So, if I were to just do everything, lots of those would suffer. My focus is customers that want it done right, in order, by the books, through insurance or out of pocket as required, and aren't interested in cheap, shortcuts, or making money off of their carrier through some scheme. It actually weeds out a lot of folks just insisting on doing it right.

I have a large team in DFW. It's one of our bigger markets and offices. I work there for referrals/ags.

Hondo storm was several years ago. It was the one where we got that 'world record' hail stone. It was a record for like 8 months. LOL. Mother nature said "hold my beer'.

hbc07 said:

---

It's disgusting outside.

---

Gonna start popping off here in a few hours. Will see if the cap holds.

We were in Arlington last night at the Lone Star smokeout. Had to evacuate after Koe Wetzel's third song. We stayed at Loews for the night. Koe then went to Texas Live & put on a great acoustic session. I did watch some of the lightening show from our 14th floor window. It was great.

Well now I know who to check with if I get hit one of these days. We've been fortunate the last few years

We drove back from the Rangers game into Springtown last night (detoured through Weatherford to avoid the storm) and there was quite a bit of damage. We passed quite a few fire trucks, ambulances and police as we were coming into town on Hwy 51. These pictures from this morning were on my parents country road just northwest of town between Springtown and Cottondale.