Storm report · Shelby

Hail in Montevallo Jul 29, 2026

Hit 5 days ago

NEXRAD caught this storm: 2 hail signatures up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Montevallo 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.

1.1 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /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 Montevallo 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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Montevallo, AL on Jul 29, 2026

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.

Max size 0.75" Detections 2

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 29, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 29, 2026 sits in Montevallo's hail record

This was Montevallo's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 20 days after the Jul 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Montevallo at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Montevallo: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 25 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Alabaster (6 miles east, up to 0.75"); Adger (27 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Coaling (29 miles west, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Montevallo's Jul 29, 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 Montevallo, 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 Montevallo 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.

Track hail over Montevallo on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Montevallo storm history — this Jul 29, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Montevallo hail history

2 recorded storm days in Montevallo, AL

← All hail in Montevallo

Other storms in Montevallo

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.