Storm report · Jefferson Davis

Hail in Lake Arthur May 10, 2026

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

Largest hailstone

0.5"

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

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Lake Arthur 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.

0.8 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /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 Lake Arthur saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Lake Arthur, LA on May 10, 2026

The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lake Arthur, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where May 10, 2026 sits in Lake Arthur's hail record

This was Lake Arthur's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake Arthur at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake Arthur: the same system put hail over 350 other tracked cities, 21 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Kaplan (31 miles east, up to 1"); Rayne (33 miles northeast, up to 1"); Carencro (38 miles east, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Lake Arthur's May 10, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Lake Arthur 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 Lake Arthur 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.

Track hail over Lake Arthur on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Lake Arthur storm history — this May 10, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Lake Arthur hail history

2 recorded storm days in Lake Arthur, LA

← All hail in Lake Arthur

Other storms in Lake Arthur

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.