Storm report · Russell

Hail in Fort Mitchell Jul 17, 2026

Hit 17 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fort Mitchell this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

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

311

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Fort Mitchell 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.

2.4 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
50 /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 Mitchell 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 hail-size map of the storm over Fort Mitchell, AL on Jul 17, 2026

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 Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fort Mitchell, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

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

This was Fort Mitchell's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 72 days after the May 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Mitchell at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Mitchell: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 12 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Americus (43 miles east, up to 0.5"); Cuthbert (45 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Edison (50 miles south, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Fort Mitchell'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 Mitchell, 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.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Fort Mitchell 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

$3.7M

Potential roof exposure — 311 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Close just 0.5% of the 311 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.
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 Mitchell on the live map

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Fort Mitchell hail history

2 recorded storm days in Fort Mitchell, AL

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Other storms in Fort Mitchell

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.