Storm report · DeKalb

Hail in Stone Mountain Jul 16, 2026

Hit 18 days ago

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

Largest hailstone

0.5"

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

3,111

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Stone Mountain 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.

2.5 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
70 /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 Stone Mountain saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Stone Mountain, GA on Jul 16, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Stone Mountain, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in Stone Mountain's hail record

This was Stone Mountain's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Jul 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Stone Mountain at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Stone Mountain: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 14 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Norcross (7 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Loganville (14 miles east, up to 0.5"); Atlanta (18 miles west, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Stone Mountain's Jul 16, 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 Stone Mountain. 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 Stone Mountain 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$37M

Potential roof exposure — 3,111 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
16 jobs
Illustrative work
~$240K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,111 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.

Track hail over Stone Mountain on the live map

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Stone Mountain hail history

5 recorded storm days in Stone Mountain, GA

← All hail in Stone Mountain

Other storms in Stone Mountain

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.