Hail in Fort Deposit · Aug 17, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fort Deposit that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Fort Deposit 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
- 13 /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 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 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 Aug 17, 2026 sits in Fort Deposit's hail record.
This was Fort Deposit's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jul 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Deposit at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Deposit: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Eclectic (54 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Opp (56 miles south, up to 0.75"); Jackson (84 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Fort Deposit 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Fort Deposit for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Fort Deposit 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
Fort Deposit hail history
Other storms in Fort Deposit.
NEXRAD surface Jul 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 23, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
1"Take your next area into the field.
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