Tornado Rating unknown
2 WSW Hurricane Baldwin County
“Broadcast media shared video of a tornado near the Tensaw River via social media. Time and location estimated from radar with TDS evident. (MOB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Baldwin
Hail in Bay Minette · Aug 20, 2026
Hit 23 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bay Minette that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 553
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Bay Minette has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.6 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.6 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 55 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Bay Minette saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 20, 2026 · Bay Minette, AL
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Map image is still rendering for this surface.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bay Minette, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 20, 2026 sits in Bay Minette's hail record.
This was Bay Minette's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Aug 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bay Minette at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bay Minette: the same system put hail over 640 other tracked cities, 92 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Robertsdale (11 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Molino (22 miles east, up to 0.5"); Atmore (25 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Bay Minette 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Tornado reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Hurricane — beyond Bay Minette itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Bay Minette roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
553 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$6.6M
Potential roof exposure — 553 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 3 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 553 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $116 on top of the $150 plan.
Bay Minette hail history
Other storms in Bay Minette.
14 recorded storm days in Bay Minette, AL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Aug 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Aug 18, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Aug 7, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jul 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jul 7, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jul 5, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jun 30, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jun 23, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jun 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
May 8, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
May 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bay Minette / AL
Jan 3, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 21, 2026.