Hail in Montgomery · Jul 31, 2026
Convective day · Jul 31, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Montgomery has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Montgomery 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.
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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 31, 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 31, 2026 sits in Montgomery's hail record.
This was Montgomery's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Montgomery at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Montgomery: the same system put hail over 238 other tracked cities, 25 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Letohatchee (14 miles south, up to 0"); Fort Deposit (18 miles southwest, up to 1"); Wetumpka (22 miles north, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Montgomery 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
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Montgomery for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Montgomery roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Montgomery hail history
Other storms in Montgomery.
Estimated-size surface Aug 28, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 29, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface May 6, 2026
3.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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