Houston County Hail Map & Storm Reports
Hail, wind, and tornado reports from official NOAA sources (NWS & SPC) · Last 12 months · Updated Sep 12, 2026
Has it hailed in Houston County, Texas recently? Official National Weather Service (NWS) and Storm Prediction Center (SPC) records say yes: 30 hail reports with hail up to 1", among 32 severe weather events logged here in the last 12 months, together with 2 high-wind reports with gusts up to 50 mph. The most recent recorded storm activity was on Aug 9, 2026. This page updates daily: every event comes straight from official NOAA data — no estimates, no modeling, just the record.
Houston County hail map
Where hail and high-wind reports clustered across Houston County over the last 12 months. Heat shows report density and significance, not radar.
What the radar showed
Hail history for an address in Houston County
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Check an address free →Storm log — the official record, day by day
Events older than 30 days, as recorded by the National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center. Excerpts are quoted directly from official warnings and verified reports.
Sunday, August 9, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.5"
“At 442 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Wells, or 16 miles north of Apple Springs, moving north at 15 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northeastern Houston County.”
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Saturday, August 8, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.25"
“At 718 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles west of Grapeland, or 12 miles northwest of Crockett. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include...”
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Thursday, August 6, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.25"
“At 717 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Austonio. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Austonio and Lovelady.”
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Thursday, July 16, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.25"
“At 440 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Austonio, moving north at 20 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Austonio.”
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Monday, July 6, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.5"
“At 707 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Crockett. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Crockett, Austonio, and Latexo.”
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Sunday, July 5, 2026
2 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.88"
“At 545 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Apple Springs, moving east at 10 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Apple Springs and Centralia.”
“At 539 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms 7 miles northwest of Groveton, or 17 miles southwest of Apple Springs, moving east at 5 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Groveton.”
- Hail 0.88" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.75"
“At 612 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms 7 miles south of Groveton, or 18 miles northwest of Livingston, moving southwest at 20 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include...”
- Hail 0.75" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
1 NWS warning — wind gusts up to 50 mph
“At 310 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of Austonio to near Coldspring. Movement was northeast at 35 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 50 mph. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include...”
- Wind 50 mph Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Monday, May 25, 2026
2 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.88"
“At 823 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Forest, or 16 miles north of Apple Springs. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.”
“At 657 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms near Austonio, moving southwest at 10 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Crockett, Austonio, and Lovelady.”
- Hail 0.88" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Sunday, May 24, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.5"
“At 811 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles north of Austonio, moving west at 20 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of west central Houston County.”
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.25"
“At 421 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 13 miles south of Austonio to near Rockland. Movement was north at 35 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include...”
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Sunday, May 10, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.88"
“At 811 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms near Onalaska, or 15 miles northwest of Livingston, moving north at 10 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include...”
- Hail 0.88" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Friday, May 8, 2026
2 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.5"
“At 734 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11 miles northwest of Riverside, or 15 miles north of Huntsville, moving east at 55 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include...”
“At 620 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Madisonville, moving northeast at 25 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Madisonville and Austonio.”
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.88"
“At 913 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14 miles south of Austonio, moving east at 30 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.”
- Hail 0.88" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Saturday, April 25, 2026
2 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.75"
“At 355 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles northeast of Elkhart, or 9 miles east of Palestine, moving southeast at 20 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Weches and Mound City.”
“At 514 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Kennard, or 18 miles northeast of Crockett, moving southeast at 20 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Kennard.”
- Hail 0.75" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Monday, April 13, 2026
1 NWS warning — hail up to 0.25"
“At 1252 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Madisonville, moving northeast at 25 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Madisonville, Austonio, Normangee, and North Zulch.”
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Sunday, March 15, 2026
1 SPC verified storm report · 2 NWS warnings — hail up to 1"
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (HGX)”
“At 520 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 8 miles northwest of Austonio to 8 miles northwest of Madisonville. Movement was southeast at 30 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.”
- Hail 1" 10 W Lovelady SPC verified report
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
3 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.5"
“At 812 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Kennard to 12 miles west of Riverside to 9 miles southeast of Bedias to near Millican. Movement was south at 30 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.”
“At 717 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 9 miles southwest of Elkhart to 6 miles east of Centerville to 9 miles southwest of Fort Boggy State Park to 9 miles northwest of Kurten. Movement was southeast at 30 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.”
- Hail 0.5" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Saturday, February 14, 2026
1 SPC verified storm report
“Report of three structures with reported tin roof damage along FM 229. Nearby wind gust of 57 mph was reported around this time. (HGX)”
- Wind Unknown 4 SW Latexo SPC verified report
Saturday, November 29, 2025
2 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.25"
“At 859 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 9 miles west of Corrigan to near Huntsville to near Bryan. Movement was southeast at 25 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include...”
“At 725 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12 miles northwest of Huntsville, moving east at 25 mph. Hazard: Pea size hail. Impact: Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Northern Huntsville.”
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Monday, November 24, 2025
3 NWS warnings — hail up to 0.88"
“At 556 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles west of Madisonville, moving northeast at 50 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Madisonville, Austonio, Normangee, and North Zulch.”
“At 455 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles west of Crockett, moving northeast at 30 mph. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Impact: Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Crockett, Grapeland, Latexo, Weches, Mound City, and Salmon.”
- Hail 0.88" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
- Hail 0.25" Houston County NWS severe weather mention
Today's severe weather outlook
Common questions
When was the last severe storm in Houston County, TX?
The most recent recorded event was on Aug 9, 2026. Official NWS and SPC records show 32 severe weather events in Houston County over the last 12 months. Exact dates and locations for recent storms are available in the app with a free account.
Did it hail in Houston County recently?
Yes — 30 hail reports in the last 12 months, with hail up to 1" recorded. The hail map above shows where reports clustered; the storm log lists each day.
How do I see hail history for a specific address in Houston County?
Create a free IDOLCheck account and run an address check. It shows verified storm reports and official NWS warning boundaries around any specific property, including the most recent 30 days — county-level pages like this one only tell part of the story.