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Hail in Macon · Sep 13, 2026

Hit 1 day ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Macon 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 13, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 16th most severe storm Macon 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 Macon saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 13, 2026 · Macon, MS

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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Sep 13, 2026 Estimated size field

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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 13, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Macon, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 13, 2026 sits in Macon's hail record.

This was Macon's 17th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Sep 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 16th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Macon at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Macon: the same system put hail over 171 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Mississippi. Nearest: Shuqualak (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Crawford (18 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Collinsville (30 miles southwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 17 Macon 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Macon for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Macon 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

Macon hail history

Other storms in Macon.

17 recorded storm days in Macon, MS
← All hail in Macon
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Sep 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Sep 12, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Sep 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Sep 5, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 26, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 19, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 18, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 10, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 9, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 9, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Aug 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Aug 8, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Jul 9, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Jul 9, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Jul 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Jul 4, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Jul 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Jul 1, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Jun 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Jun 13, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Jun 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Jun 1, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Apr 28, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Apr 28, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Macon, MS on Mar 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Macon / MS

Mar 7, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
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 14, 2026.