Hail in Andalusia · Mar 15, 2026
Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 11th most severe storm Andalusia has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Andalusia saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
The storm in context
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Andalusia's hail record.
This was Andalusia's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 11th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Andalusia at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Andalusia: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 50 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Red Level (21 miles north, up to 1"); Castleberry (33 miles west, up to 1"); Evergreen (34 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Andalusia storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
For this storm over Andalusia, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Andalusia roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Andalusia hail history
Other storms in Andalusia.
Estimated-size surface Aug 21, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Jul 9, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface May 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 31, 2026
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