Hail in Gray · Sep 6, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Gray that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
Convective day · Sep 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Gray 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 Gray 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 6, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Gray, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 6, 2026 sits in Gray's hail record.
This was Gray's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Sep 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gray at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gray: the same system put hail over 608 other tracked cities, 51 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Forsyth (12 miles west, up to 0.5"); Hillsboro (12 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Haddock (13 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Gray 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Gray. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Gray 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
Estimated-size surface Sep 5, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 21, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 5, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
2"Take your next area into the field.
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