Hail size 1.75"
Dumas Tippah County
“Report of golf ball size hall in Dumas. (MEG)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Tippah
Hail in Ripley · Feb 26, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 696
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Feb 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Ripley has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 57 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Ripley saw the hail — from two instruments
Feb 26, 2026 · Ripley, 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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 Surface resolved
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
1"
The storm in context
Where Feb 26, 2026 sits in Ripley's hail record.
This was Ripley's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ripley at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ripley: the same system put hail over 131 other tracked cities, 45 of them in Mississippi. Nearest: Baldwyn (9 miles southeast, up to 1"); Walnut (14 miles north, up to 0.5"); Tiplersville (15 miles north, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Ripley 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.
Hail 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 Dumas — beyond Ripley itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Ripley roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
696 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$8.4M
Potential roof exposure — 696 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 3 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 696 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
February 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around February 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 $146 on top of the $150 plan.
Ripley hail history
Other storms in Ripley.
14 recorded storm days in Ripley, MS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Aug 27, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Aug 17, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jul 11, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jul 3, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jul 1, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jun 12, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Jun 1, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
May 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Apr 28, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
Apr 27, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ripley / MS
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
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 Aug 28, 2026.