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Hail in Tuscumbia · Aug 8, 2026

Hit 35 days ago

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 571
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Aug 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

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

Composite score · 2.1 / 10
Storm severity score

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

2.1 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

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

Homes exposed
55 /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 Tuscumbia saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 8, 2026 · Tuscumbia, AL

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Tuscumbia, AL on Aug 8, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Tuscumbia, AL on Aug 8, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Aug 8, 2026 sits in Tuscumbia's hail record.

This was Tuscumbia's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 68 days after the Jun 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Tuscumbia at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Tuscumbia: the same system put hail over 500 other tracked cities, 22 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Leighton (11 miles east, up to 0.5"); Courtland (23 miles east, up to 0.75"); Hillsboro (29 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Tuscumbia 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.

For this storm over Tuscumbia, 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Tuscumbia 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

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

571 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$6.9M

Potential roof exposure — 571 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K

Close just 0.5% of the 571 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

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $120 on top of the $150 plan.

Tuscumbia hail history

7 recorded storm days in Tuscumbia, 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 5, 2026.