Hail in Mount Ida · Sep 12, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mount Ida that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Mount Ida 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 39 /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 Mount Ida 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 over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 12, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mount Ida, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 12, 2026 sits in Mount Ida's hail record.
This was Mount Ida's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 21 days after the Aug 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mount Ida at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mount Ida: the same system put hail over 354 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Arkansas. Nearest: Oden (6 miles west, up to 1.5"); Story (6 miles east, up to 0.5"); Norman (13 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Mount Ida 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 Mount Ida 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Mount Ida roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$1M
Potential roof exposure — 87 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 $18 on top of the $150 plan.
Mount Ida hail history
Other storms in Mount Ida.
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 5, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 25, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 9, 2026
0.5"Take your next area into the field.
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