Storm report · De Soto

Hail in Mansfield Jul 12, 2026

Hit 22 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

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

16

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 11th most severe storm Mansfield 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.

1.4 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
25 /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 Mansfield saw the hail — from two instruments

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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Mansfield, LA on Jul 12, 2026

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 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mansfield, LA on Jul 12, 2026

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 12, 2026 sits in Mansfield's hail record

This was Mansfield's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Jul 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 11th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mansfield at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mansfield: the same system put hail over 367 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Pelican (15 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Pleasant Hill (22 miles south, up to 0.75"); Center (41 miles southwest, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Mansfield's Jul 12, 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.

For this storm over Mansfield, 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Mansfield 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$192K

Potential roof exposure — 16 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Mansfield on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mansfield storm history — this Jul 12, 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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Mansfield hail history

14 recorded storm days in Mansfield, LA

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Other storms in Mansfield

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.