Storm report · Wayne

Hail in Waynesboro Apr 29, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Waynesboro this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

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

2,507

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Waynesboro 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.

2.8 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
68 /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 Waynesboro saw the hail — from two instruments

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Waynesboro, MS on Apr 29, 2026

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Waynesboro, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Waynesboro's hail record

This was Waynesboro's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Waynesboro at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Waynesboro: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 37 of them in Mississippi. Nearest: Buckatunna (14 miles south, up to 0.75"); Millry (14 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); State Line (21 miles south, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Waynesboro's Apr 29, 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 Waynesboro, 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.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Waynesboro roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$30M

Potential roof exposure — 2,507 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
13 jobs
Illustrative work
~$195K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,507 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Waynesboro on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Waynesboro storm history — this Apr 29, 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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Waynesboro hail history

7 recorded storm days in Waynesboro, MS

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Other storms in Waynesboro

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.