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Hail in Town Creek · Sep 22, 2026

Hit 9 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Town Creek that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.75" ≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,886
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 5th most severe storm Town Creek has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.8 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

2.8 /10
Peak hail signal
19 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
66 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Town Creek saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 22, 2026 · Town Creek, AL

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-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Map image is still rendering for this surface.

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.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Town Creek, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 22, 2026 sits in Town Creek's hail record.

This was Town Creek's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Sep 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Town Creek at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Town Creek: the same system put hail over 97 other tracked cities, 37 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Rogersville (11 miles north, up to 0.75"); Athens (12 miles east, up to 0.75"); Killen (18 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Town Creek 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

No reports filed with the NWS

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 Town Creek 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.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Town Creek roofs.

A signal this size sits near the National Weather Service severe threshold. Aging shingles and soft metals such as vents, flashing, and gutters may be more vulnerable; roof age, wind, and material condition all matter, and only an inspection can confirm damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

1,886 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$23M

Potential roof exposure — 1,886 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
9 jobs
Illustrative work
~$135K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,886 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 $396 on top of the $150 plan.

Town Creek hail history

9 recorded storm days in Town Creek, AL

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 23, 2026.