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— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Alexandria · Aug 19, 2026
Convective day · Aug 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Alexandria 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
- 38 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Alexandria 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 Aug 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Alexandria, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 19, 2026 sits in Alexandria's hail record.
This was Alexandria's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Aug 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Alexandria at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Alexandria: the same system put hail over 496 other tracked cities, 7 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Noblesville (17 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Atlanta (19 miles west, up to 0.5"); Frankfort (50 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Alexandria 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.
Hail reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Yorktown — beyond Alexandria itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Alexandria 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
$912K
Potential roof exposure — 76 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $16 on top of the $150 plan.
Alexandria hail history
Other storms in Alexandria.
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Jun 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 26, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
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