Frisco The Frisco Storm Record: Three Dated Events, Each With Its Source
Hail copy on roofing sites is usually a round number with no date attached. This page is the opposite: only events in which an official or newspaper source named Frisco, with the size, the place and who said so.
What Qualifies for This List
An entry needs a date, a named location in or beside Frisco, and a source that is either the National Weather Service, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, or a newspaper quoting one of them. Crowd-sourced hail maps and aggregator sites do not qualify, and neither does any roofing company's own count. Where a report was relayed from social media, this page says so, because the Storm Prediction Center's own comment field says so.
April 3, 2014
- Largest Frisco report
- 2 inches, from a trained spotter
- Other Frisco reports
- 1.75, 1.5 and 0.88 inches, the last two miles west of the city at Stonebrook and FM 423
- Elsewhere that evening
- 4.25 inches near Denton; 2 inches at McKinney and Allen; 1 inch at Prosper
- Source
- National Weather Service Fort Worth, event summary for April 3, 2014
This is the oldest event on the list and the only one with a full National Weather Service event page behind it. A roof that was on a Frisco house in April 2014 and is still there has been through a two-inch hail report plus eleven more North Texas summers.
National Weather Service Fort Worth, event summary for April 3, 2014. Re-read the report table for the county assigned to each row before quoting a row.
March 24, 2019
- Largest report
- 2.75 inches, measured, at Coit Road and Main Street, about three miles east of the Frisco reference point
- Described as
- About the size of a baseball, by the newspaper citing the Weather Service
- Other Frisco reports
- 1.75 inches in Frisco and 2 inches in north Frisco at Main and Pinebridge, both relayed from social media
- Wider pattern
- 1.5 to 2 inches across the Prosper, McKinney and Frisco area; pea to golf ball in McKinney, Frisco and Plano
- Source
- The Dallas Morning News, March 24 and 25, 2019, citing the National Weather Service; NOAA Storm Prediction Center daily storm reports for March 24, 2019 and March 14, 2024
A Sunday evening storm. The Dallas Morning News quoted a Weather Service meteorologist calling hail of that size at one location rare. The measured 2.75-inch report sits between Frisco and McKinney, which is how this site describes it everywhere; it does not say that baseball hail fell across Frisco, because the sources do not.
The Dallas Morning News, March 24 and 25, 2019, citing the National Weather Service. SPC report rows for March 24, 2019: 1.75 in Frisco (social media), 2.75 in 3 miles east of Frisco (measured), 2 in north Frisco (social media).
March 14, 2024
- Tornado
- A very brief tornado near the University of North Texas Frisco campus, confirmed by the Weather Service from video; minor damage to cars, trees and signs; no rating listed
- Hail near Frisco
- 1.75 inches two miles west-northwest of Frisco; a 2.5-inch report at Eldorado Parkway and FM 423, filed under Hackberry in Denton County but placed in Frisco by its own comment
- County-wide
- 1.5 to 3 inches reported across Denton and Collin counties
- Source
- The Dallas Morning News, March 14, 2024, quoting National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Dunn; Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 14, 2024, citing the Weather Service; NOAA Storm Prediction Center daily storm reports for March 24, 2019 and March 14, 2024
This is the most recent event, and the one a 2010s roof is most likely to have been through without anyone looking. The three-inch figure that appears in some roofing advertising is a county-level maximum; nothing in the sources places a three-inch stone inside Frisco.
The Dallas Morning News, March 14, 2024, quoting National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Dunn. Star-Telegram syndication read via Yahoo News. SPC hail and tornado report rows for March 14, 2024.
What Is Not on This List, and Why
A September 25, 2024 report of two-inch hail in Frisco appears on a crowd-sourced hail site and nowhere official. It stays off until a Weather Service or SPC record confirms it.
Counts such as a number of hail days per year, and wind gusts attributed to Frisco, were found only on other roofing sites and are not repeated here.
Dollar damage totals. None of the sources above gives one for Frisco.
Using the Record
Find the year your roof went on. If it predates any of the three dates, it has been through that storm. Whether it was damaged is a question for a hail inspection, not for this page, and whether anything is owed under a policy is a question for your insurer, not for this site.
Roofs installed in 2019 or 2024 are common in Frisco for the obvious reason. The permit guide explains how to find the date through the city's records.
Was Your Roof on the House for One of These?
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