Hail in Owens Cross Roads · Sep 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Owens Cross Roads that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Owens Cross Roads 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 73 /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 Owens Cross Roads 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Owens Cross Roads, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 21, 2026 sits in Owens Cross Roads's hail record.
This was Owens Cross Roads's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 32 days after the Aug 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Owens Cross Roads at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Owens Cross Roads: the same system put hail over 498 other tracked cities, 92 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Grant (11 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Union Grove (14 miles south, up to 0.5"); Guntersville (21 miles southeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Owens Cross Roads 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.
For this storm over Owens Cross Roads, 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Owens Cross Roads 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.
Potential roof exposure
$56M
Potential roof exposure — 4,681 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 23 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$345K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,681 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $983 on top of the $150 plan.
Owens Cross Roads hail history
Other storms in Owens Cross Roads.
Estimated-size surface Sep 22, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.75"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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