Hail size 1"
1 SE Crossroads Baldwin County
“Quarter sized hail near Crossroads. (MOB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Bay Minette Jan 3, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bay Minette this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
424
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 4th most severe storm Bay Minette has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.7 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 53 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Bay Minette 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-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jan 3, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bay Minette, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jan 3, 2026 sits in Bay Minette's hail record
This was Bay Minette's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bay Minette at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jan 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bay Minette: the same system put hail over 18 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Robertsdale (21 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Stockton (23 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Molino (28 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Bay Minette's Jan 3, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
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.
Hail reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Crossroads — beyond Bay Minette itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Bay Minette roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$5.1M
Potential roof exposure — 424 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around January 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Bay Minette on the live map
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Bay Minette hail history
← All hail in Bay Minette 10 recorded storm days in Bay Minette, AL
Other storms in Bay Minette
Jul 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 7, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 23, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Map unavailable
Jun 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 8, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Map unavailable
May 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.