Texas hailstorms cause more than $1 billion in insured losses

Karen Clark & Co. said Friday that hailstorms in Texas earlier this month caused more than $1 billion in insured losses.

Stronger-than-average thunderstorms caused by a stationary frontal boundary from Texas to Georgia from June 10 to 13 produced large damaging hail as larger updrafts penetrated the atmosphere. The intense updrafts suspended hailstones for longer than weaker updrafts would have, KCC said in a statement.

Dallas experienced large hail impact as the boundary’s stationary nature supported multiple severe storms in the same location over consecutive days.

“Baseball to softball-sized hail was common. A hailstone in Mansfield, Texas, nearly broke state records at 5.23 inches in diameter,” the Boston-based catastrophe modeling company said in its estimate.