Storm report · Lamar

Hail in Vernon Jun 1, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 11 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

163

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Vernon 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.

4.5 /10
Hail size
56 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
44 /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 Vernon 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Vernon, AL on Jun 1, 2026

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 2.25" Detections 11
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vernon, AL on Jun 1, 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 1.25"
The storm in context

Where Jun 1, 2026 sits in Vernon's hail record

This was Vernon's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 34 days after the Apr 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Vernon at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 1, 2026 convective day was bigger than Vernon: the same system put hail over 827 other tracked cities, 120 of them in Alabama. Nearest: Millport (7 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Caledonia (9 miles west, up to 2.25"); Hamilton (14 miles west, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Vernon's Jun 1, 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.

For this storm over Vernon, 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.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Vernon roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$2M

Potential roof exposure — 163 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 163 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Vernon on the live map

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Vernon hail history

4 recorded storm days in Vernon, AL

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Other storms in Vernon

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.