Hail in Ralph Jul 12, 2026
Hit 22 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · the largest NEXRAD radar signature9
0
none filedThe most severe storm Ralph 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 20 /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 Ralph saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 12, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 12, 2026 sits in Ralph's hail record
This was Ralph's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 74 days after the Apr 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ralph at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ralph: the same system put hail over 367 other tracked cities, 20 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Eutaw (19 miles west, up to 1"); Bankston (35 miles north, up to 1"); Berry (37 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Ralph's Jul 12, 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 Ralph. 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 0.5" hail means for Ralph roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$108K
Potential roof exposure — 9 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Ralph on the live map
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2 recorded storm days in Ralph, AL
