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Hail in Leesville · Sep 7, 2026

Hit 5 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Leesville that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 7, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 14th most severe storm Leesville has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 0.8 / 10
Storm severity score

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

0.8 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /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

Sep 7, 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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Leesville, LA on Sep 7, 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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 7, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Leesville, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 7, 2026 sits in Leesville's hail record.

This was Leesville's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Aug 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Leesville at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Leesville: the same system put hail over 163 other tracked cities, 39 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Anacoco (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Hemphill (22 miles west, up to 0.5"); Deridder (33 miles southeast, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Leesville 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

Leesville hail history

Other storms in Leesville.

15 recorded storm days in Leesville, LA
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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 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 8, 2026.