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Hail in Coaling · Jul 29, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Coaling that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Jul 29, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

Coaling's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Composite score · 0.0 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

0.0 /10
Peak hail signal
0 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Coaling saw the hail — from two instruments

Jul 29, 2026 · Coaling, AL

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

The storm in context

Where Jul 29, 2026 sits in Coaling's hail record.

This was Coaling's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Coaling at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Coaling: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 25 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Cottondale (0 miles north, up to 0"); Adger (22 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Montevallo (30 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Coaling storm date 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

No reports 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Coaling. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Below the severe threshold

What 0" hail means for Coaling 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

Coaling hail history

1 recorded storm day in Coaling, AL

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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 1, 2026.