Wind gust 58 mph
4 WSW Pope Afb Cumberland County
“Mesonet station FBRN7 Usfs Met Stn At Fort Bragg. (RAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Hoke
Hail in Raeford · Jul 28, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Raeford has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 1.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Raeford saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 28, 2026 · Raeford, 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
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"
The storm in context
Where Jul 28, 2026 sits in Raeford's hail record.
This was Raeford's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Raeford at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Raeford: the same system put hail over 686 other tracked cities, 105 of them in North Carolina. Nearest: Aberdeen (11 miles west, up to 1"); Fayetteville (24 miles east, up to 0"); Saint Pauls (27 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Raeford 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
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.
Wind reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Pope Afb — beyond Raeford itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Raeford 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
Raeford hail history
Other storms in Raeford.
7 recorded storm days in Raeford, NC
Estimated-size surface Storm date Raeford / NC
Sep 5, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Raeford / NC
Aug 21, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Raeford / NC
Aug 16, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Raeford / NC
Aug 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Raeford / NC
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Raeford / NC
Jun 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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.