Storm report · Oglethorpe

Hail in Carlton Jul 9, 2026

Hit 25 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Carlton this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 4th most severe storm Carlton 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.

0.8 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /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 Carlton 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Carlton, GA on Jul 9, 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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 9, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Carlton, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 9, 2026 sits in Carlton's hail record

This was Carlton's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 125 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Carlton at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Carlton: the same system put hail over 944 other tracked cities, 87 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Newborn (49 miles southwest, up to 1"); Mansfield (53 miles southwest, up to 1"); Shady Dale (54 miles southwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Carlton's Jul 9, 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 Carlton. 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Carlton roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

Track hail over Carlton on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Carlton storm history — this Jul 9, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Carlton hail history

4 recorded storm days in Carlton, GA

← All hail in Carlton

Other storms in Carlton

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.