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Hail in Leesville · Apr 24, 2026

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 1,483
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Apr 24, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Leesville has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.1 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.1 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
63 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Leesville saw the hail — from two instruments

Apr 24, 2026 · Leesville, LA

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Leesville, LA on Apr 24, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 1" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Apr 24, 2026 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.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Apr 24, 2026 sits in Leesville's hail record.

This was Leesville's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 40 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Leesville at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Leesville: the same system put hail over 345 other tracked cities, 50 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Hornbeck (17 miles north, up to 1"); Florien (32 miles north, up to 1"); Many (38 miles north, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 16 Leesville 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

No reports filed with the NWS

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.

For this storm over Leesville, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1" hail means for Leesville roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

1,483 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$18M

Potential roof exposure — 1,483 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
7 jobs
Illustrative work
~$105K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,483 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.

Claim window

April 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 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 $311 on top of the $150 plan.

Leesville hail history

Other storms in Leesville.

16 recorded storm days in Leesville, LA
← All hail in Leesville
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Sep 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Sep 12, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Sep 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Sep 7, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Aug 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Aug 7, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jul 17, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jul 12, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jul 7, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 6, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jul 6, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jul 5, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jul 3, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jun 2, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Jun 2, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on May 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

May 10, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on May 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

May 8, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on May 6, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

May 6, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Mar 15, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Mar 15, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Mar 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Mar 7, 2026

No ground reports filed Open report →

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 13, 2026.