Hail size 1"
2 SSW Powellville Walker County
“Social media photos of quarter-size hail in the Pineywoods area. (BMX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Jasper Feb 26, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
3,394
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Jasper 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.
3.9 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 71 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Jasper 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1.25"
Where Feb 26, 2026 sits in Jasper's hail record
This was Jasper's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Jasper at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Jasper: the same system put hail over 131 other tracked cities, 49 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Bremen (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Arley (15 miles northwest, up to 1"); Nauvoo (17 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Jasper's Feb 26, 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.
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.
Hail reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Powellville — beyond Jasper itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Jasper roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$41M
Potential roof exposure — 3,394 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
17 jobs
Illustrative work
~$255K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around February 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Jasper hail history
← All hail in Jasper 8 recorded storm days in Jasper, AL
Other storms in Jasper
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 1, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 1, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.