Hail in Luling · Sep 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Luling that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Luling 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
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Luling saw the hail — from two instruments
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 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Luling, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 21, 2026 sits in Luling's hail record.
This was Luling's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 75 days after the Jul 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Luling at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Luling: the same system put hail over 498 other tracked cities, 42 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Mandeville (37 miles north, up to 0.75"); Montegut (37 miles south, up to 0.5"); New Orleans (38 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Luling 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Luling. 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 Luling 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
Luling hail history
Other storms in Luling.
Estimated-size surface Jul 8, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Jul 5, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 8, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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