“Social media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Huntsville · Sep 15, 2026
Convective day · Sep 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Huntsville 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
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 63 /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 Huntsville saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Huntsville, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 15, 2026 sits in Huntsville's hail record.
This was Huntsville's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 57 days after the Jul 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Huntsville at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Huntsville: the same system put hail over 169 other tracked cities, 35 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Jacksonville (9 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Cairo (9 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Salisbury (9 miles northwest, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Huntsville 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.
Hail reports
2 reports“Social media report. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 12 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Cairo — beyond Huntsville itself.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Huntsville roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$17M
Potential roof exposure — 1,438 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 7 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$105K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,438 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $302 on top of the $150 plan.
Huntsville hail history
Other storms in Huntsville.
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 4, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 26, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
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