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Hail in Moravian Falls · Aug 22, 2026

Hit 21 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Moravian Falls that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 57
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 5th most severe storm Moravian Falls has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 1.6 / 10
Storm severity score

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

1.6 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
35 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Moravian Falls saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 22, 2026 · Moravian Falls, NC

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Moravian Falls, NC on Aug 22, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Moravian Falls, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 22, 2026 sits in Moravian Falls's hail record.

This was Moravian Falls's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Aug 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Moravian Falls at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Moravian Falls: the same system put hail over 501 other tracked cities, 11 of them in North Carolina. Nearest: State Road (22 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Granite Falls (30 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Winston-Salem (48 miles east, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Moravian Falls 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

No reports 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Moravian Falls 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 Moravian Falls 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.

57 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$684K

Potential roof exposure — 57 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Claim window

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $12 on top of the $150 plan.

Moravian Falls hail history

5 recorded storm days in Moravian Falls, 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 Aug 23, 2026.