Hail in Midway May 7, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 3 hail signatures up to 2.25". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature38
0
none filedThe most severe storm Midway has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 32 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Midway saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for May 7, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 7, 2026 sits in Midway's hail record
This was Midway's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the May 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Midway at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Midway: the same system put hail over 48 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Banks (20 miles southwest, up to 2.25"); Geneva (68 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Kinston (76 miles southwest, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Midway's May 7, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Midway. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 2.25" hail means for Midway roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$456K
Potential roof exposure — 38 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Midway on the live map
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4 recorded storm days in Midway, AL
