Hail size 1"
2 SSW Powellville Walker County
“Social media photos of quarter-size hail in the Pineywoods area. (BMX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Walker
Hail in Jasper · Feb 26, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 3,394
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Feb 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Jasper has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 71 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Jasper saw the hail — from two instruments
Feb 26, 2026 · Jasper, AL
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 Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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 Surface resolved
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.
Max size
1.25"
The storm in context
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 9 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. In the app this date is one of 9 Jasper 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
1 report 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.
Hail reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Powellville — beyond Jasper itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Jasper roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
3,394 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$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
Close just 0.5% of the 3,394 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.
Claim window
February 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $713 on top of the $150 plan.
Jasper hail history
Other storms in Jasper.
9 recorded storm days in Jasper, AL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
Aug 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
Jul 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
Jul 1, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
Jun 1, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Jasper / AL
May 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 21, 2026.