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Hail in Macclesfield · Sep 5, 2026

Hit 7 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Macclesfield that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 2,463

Ground reports 1 1 hail

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

Macclesfield's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.8 / 10

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.8 /10

Peak hail signal: 31 /100
Homes exposed: 68 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Macclesfield saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 5, 2026 · Macclesfield, NC

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 map of the storm over Macclesfield, NC on Sep 5, 2026 — 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 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 5, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Macclesfield, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 5, 2026 sits in Macclesfield's hail record.

This was Macclesfield's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Macclesfield at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Macclesfield: the same system put hail over 514 other tracked cities, 128 of them in North Carolina. Nearest: Walstonburg (14 miles south, up to 0.75"); Farmville (15 miles south, up to 1.25"); Snow Hill (21 miles south, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Macclesfield storm date 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 report

Hail size 1.75"

Macclesfield Edgecombe County

7:48 PM UTC

“Golf Ball sized hail reported in Macclesfield. (RAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Macclesfield 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.

2,463 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$30M

Potential roof exposure — 2,463 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 12 jobs
Illustrative work: ~$180K

Close just 0.5% of the 2,463 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

September 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $517 on top of the $150 plan.

Macclesfield hail history

1 recorded storm day in Macclesfield, NC

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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 6, 2026.