Storm report · Decatur

Hail in Bainbridge Jul 30, 2026

Hit 4 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 17 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

499

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Bainbridge 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.

2.8 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
54 /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 Bainbridge saw the hail — from two instruments

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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Bainbridge, GA on Jul 30, 2026

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 1" Detections 17
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bainbridge, GA on Jul 30, 2026

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 Jul 30, 2026 sits in Bainbridge's hail record

This was Bainbridge's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bainbridge at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bainbridge: the same system put hail over 432 other tracked cities, 12 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Iron City (10 miles west, up to 0.5"); Attapulgus (14 miles southeast, up to 1"); Climax (15 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Bainbridge's Jul 30, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Bainbridge. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Bainbridge roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$6M

Potential roof exposure — 499 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Close just 0.5% of the 499 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 July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Bainbridge hail history

4 recorded storm days in Bainbridge, GA

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Other storms in Bainbridge

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.