Storm report · Walker

Hail in Townley Jul 18, 2026

Hit 16 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Townley this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 4th most severe storm Townley 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.

0.8 /10
Hail size
13 /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 Townley 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-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Townley, AL on Jul 18, 2026

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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Townley, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in Townley's hail record

This was Townley's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 29 days after the Jun 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Townley at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Townley: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 27 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Oakman (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Cullman (40 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Moulton (42 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Townley's Jul 18, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Townley 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 0.5" hail means for Townley 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.

Track hail over Townley on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Townley storm history — this Jul 18, 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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Townley hail history

4 recorded storm days in Townley, AL

← All hail in Townley

Other storms in Townley

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.