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Austin hail season 2005
23 NWS-recorded hail reports ≥1″ within 35 miles, across 7 storm days, max 2.00". Every one of those reports is a dated, located, citable official record — the context behind this market's 2005 claim volume.
Biggest storm days (2005, final record)
| Date | ≥1″ reports | Max hail | Areas named in the record |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 25, 2005 | 9 | 2.00" | TRAVIS |
| May 29, 2005 | 4 | 1.75" | HAYS, TRAVIS |
| April 5, 2005 | 3 | 1.00" | TRAVIS |
| March 19, 2005 | 3 | 1.75" | CALDWELL, BASTROP, WILLIAMSON |
| March 31, 2005 | 2 | 1.75" | BASTROP, WILLIAMSON |
“On the evening of March 25, the most destructive hailstorm in ten years struck the greater Austin Area. The total damage to homes, vehicles, businesses and property has been estimated at over $100 million. This is the greatest amount of damage due to a hailstorm since of March 25, 1993, when $125 million of damage occurred. The event began as two apparent supercells located near Marble Falls and Round Mountain mer”
— NWS event narrative, March 25, 2005 (NCEI Storm Events)
When it fell
Mar 14 · Apr 4 · May 4 · Jul 1
Wind context: the record also holds 12 thunderstorm-wind events ≥50 kt (≈58 mph, the NWS severe criterion) in this radius for 2005 — relevant where the dispute is wind vs hail causation.
Working a Austin claim from 2005?
These are aggregates. A claim file needs the per-address record: every recorded event within 1, 3 and 10 miles of the property, distances, official narratives, and citations an adjuster can check line by line. That's the report — generated in seconds, hosted on HailEvidence (the neutral evidence surface), formatted as an insurance-appeal attachment.
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Provenance
Final counts: NCEI Storm Events Database, file vintage c20260527, hail events with recorded magnitude ≥1.00″ and point coordinates within 35 miles of the Austin anchor. 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. Spotted an error? Email the address on our terms page and we correct against the source.