Tornado Rating unknown
2 NW Chalmette St. Bernard County
“NWS ground survey confirmed an EF-0 touched down near Arabi... LA and tracked southward toward Norton Avenue. (LIX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Orleans
Hail in New Orleans · Jun 19, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over New Orleans that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 2,331
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm New Orleans has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 67 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 New Orleans saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 19, 2026 · New Orleans, LA
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over New Orleans, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 19, 2026 sits in New Orleans's hail record.
This was New Orleans's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 28 days after the May 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over New Orleans at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than New Orleans: the same system put hail over 339 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Louisiana. Nearest: Livingston (63 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Denham Springs (64 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Biloxi (69 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 New Orleans 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
1 report 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Chalmette — beyond New Orleans itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for New Orleans 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
2,331 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$28M
Potential roof exposure — 2,331 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 12 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$180K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,331 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
June 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 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 $490 on top of the $150 plan.
New Orleans hail history
Other storms in New Orleans.
11 recorded storm days in New Orleans, LA
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Aug 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Aug 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Jul 9, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Jul 7, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Jul 6, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Apr 24, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date New Orleans / LA
Mar 15, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
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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 Aug 25, 2026.