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HailEvidencehail history → Poetry, TX

Poetry, TX hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Poetry city centroid, 1950 to present.

70hail events since 1950
46≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
3.00"largest on record · 2012-04-03
2025-05-16most recent hail event

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 1 1.00" (quarter)
2024 0
2023 9 2.00" (hen egg)
2022 5 2.50" (tennis ball)
2021 0
2020 3 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2019 2 1.25" (half dollar)
2018 0
2017 1 1.00" (quarter)
2016 2 1.75" (golf ball)
2015 0
2014 0
2013 0
2012 4 3.00" (tea cup)

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2025-05-16 Hail 1.00" 7.6 mi
2025-05-16 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 5.6 mi
2025-03-29 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 9 mi
2024-06-02 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 6.9 mi
2024-05-28 Thunderstorm Wind 81 mph 8.9 mi
2024-05-28 Thunderstorm Wind 75 mph 9.6 mi
2024-05-28 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 8.9 mi
2024-05-28 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 4.9 mi
2023-06-23 Thunderstorm Wind 62 mph 9.6 mi
2023-06-23 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 7 mi

2025-05-16: “The Terrell Volunteer Fire Department reported that an 18 wheeler was overturned on Interstate 20 in Terrell.”

2025-03-29: “A 50 knot (58 mph) wind gust was observed at the Terrell ASOS.”

2024-06-02: “The roof was blown off a commercial building in Terrell.”

Disputing a claim at a Poetry address?

This page covers the city. A claim dispute needs the record around your address: every NWS-recorded event within 1, 3 and 10 miles, the disputed date highlighted, citations formatted for an insurance appeal.

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NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-06-12