Hail in Forsyth · Jul 16, 2026
Convective day · Jul 16, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Forsyth 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
- 49 /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 Forsyth 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Forsyth, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in Forsyth's hail record.
This was Forsyth's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Forsyth at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Forsyth: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 14 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Monticello (22 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Greenville (47 miles west, up to 0.5"); Loganville (55 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Forsyth 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Forsyth. 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 Forsyth 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$3.3M
Potential roof exposure — 272 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 272 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.
Claim window
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $57 on top of the $150 plan.
Forsyth hail history
Other storms in Forsyth.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 21, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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