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Hail in Leesville · Jul 5, 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 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jul 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

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

Composite score · 1.5 / 10
Storm severity score

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

1.5 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

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

Homes exposed
0 /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

Jul 5, 2026 · Leesville, LA

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 5, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Jul 5, 2026 Estimated size field

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"

The storm in context

Where Jul 5, 2026 sits in Leesville's hail record.

This was Leesville's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th 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 Jul 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Leesville: the same system put hail over 971 other tracked cities, 102 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Anacoco (12 miles northwest, up to 1"); Newton (20 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Pitkin (21 miles southeast, up to 1.25").

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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Leesville. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

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

Leesville hail history

Other storms in Leesville.

16 recorded storm days in Leesville, LA
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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 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 Apr 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Leesville / LA

Apr 24, 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 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.