Hail in Yazoo City · May 22, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Yazoo City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Yazoo City 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Yazoo City 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 May 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Yazoo City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 22, 2026 sits in Yazoo City's hail record.
This was Yazoo City's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the May 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Yazoo City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Yazoo City: the same system put hail over 417 other tracked cities, 20 of them in Mississippi. Nearest: Benton (7 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Vicksburg (27 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Belzoni (31 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Yazoo City 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Yazoo City 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 Yazoo City 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.
Potential roof exposure
$1.5M
Potential roof exposure — 122 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 122 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
May 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 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 $26 on top of the $150 plan.
Yazoo City hail history
Other storms in Yazoo City.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Sep 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 8, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 24, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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