Hail in Sapelo Island · Aug 12, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Sapelo Island that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Sapelo Island 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 Sapelo Island 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 Aug 12, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Sapelo Island, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 12, 2026 sits in Sapelo Island's hail record.
This was Sapelo Island's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sapelo Island at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sapelo Island: the same system put hail over 507 other tracked cities, 28 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Brunswick (18 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Surrency (60 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Callahan (63 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Sapelo Island 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 Sapelo Island 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Sapelo Island 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
Sapelo Island hail history
Other storms in Sapelo Island.
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 16, 2026
1"Take your next area into the field.
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