Hail in Hot Springs National Park · Aug 6, 2026
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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Convective day · Aug 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Hot Springs National Park has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Hot Springs National Park 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 signature field 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.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Aug 6, 2026 sits in Hot Springs National Park's hail record.
This was Hot Springs National Park's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hot Springs National Park at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hot Springs National Park: the same system put hail over 461 other tracked cities, 29 of them in Arkansas. Nearest: Royal (9 miles west, up to 0.5"); Paron (22 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); North Little Rock (54 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Hot Springs National Park 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
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 Hot Springs National Park 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 Hot Springs National Park 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
Hot Springs National Park hail history
Other storms in Hot Springs National Park.
Estimated-size surface Sep 12, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 5, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
1"Take your next area into the field.
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