Storm report · Lowndes

Hail in Fort Deposit Jul 17, 2026

Hit 17 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fort Deposit this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

16

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 5th most severe storm Fort Deposit 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.

1.4 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
25 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Fort Deposit saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Fort Deposit, AL on Jul 17, 2026

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fort Deposit, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Fort Deposit's hail record

This was Fort Deposit's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Deposit at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Deposit: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 12 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Highland Home (18 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Lapine (19 miles east, up to 0.5"); Honoraville (22 miles south, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Fort Deposit's Jul 17, 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.

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 Fort Deposit, 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Fort Deposit roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$192K

Potential roof exposure — 16 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Fort Deposit on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Fort Deposit storm history — this Jul 17, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Fort Deposit hail history

5 recorded storm days in Fort Deposit, AL

← All hail in Fort Deposit

Other storms in Fort Deposit

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.