Hail in Kinston Jun 26, 2026
Hit 38 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature365
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Kinston has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 51 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Kinston saw the hail — from two instruments
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 — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jun 26, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 26, 2026 sits in Kinston's hail record
This was Kinston's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kinston at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kinston: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 15 of them in North Carolina. Nearest: Grifton (21 miles north, up to 1"); Chinquapin (21 miles south, up to 0.5"); Ayden (27 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Kinston's Jun 26, 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.
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 Kinston 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.
What 0.75" hail means for Kinston 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.
$4.4M
Potential roof exposure — 365 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Kinston on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Kinston, NC
Other storms in Kinston
Jul 20, 2026
0.5"
Jul 7, 2026
1.75"
Jul 6, 2026
1"
Jun 28, 2026
1"