Hail size 1.5"
3 ENE Knightdale Wake County
“Corrects time of previous hail report from 3 ENE Knightdale. (RAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Wake
Hail in Wendell · Sep 5, 2026
Hit 7 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wendell that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 7,834
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Sep 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Wendell has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 78 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Wendell saw the hail — from two instruments
Sep 5, 2026 · Wendell, 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
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
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 5, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wendell, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 5, 2026 sits in Wendell's hail record.
This was Wendell's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Sep 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wendell at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wendell: the same system put hail over 514 other tracked cities, 128 of them in North Carolina. Nearest: Raleigh (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Zebulon (9 miles southeast, up to 1"); Wake Forest (13 miles northwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Wendell 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
2 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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 1.5"
3 ENE Knightdale Wake County
“(RAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm 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.
Hail was reported over 47 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Knightdale — beyond Wendell itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Wendell 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.
7,834 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$94M
Potential roof exposure — 7,834 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 39 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$585K
Close just 0.5% of the 7,834 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 $1,645 on top of the $150 plan.
Wendell hail history
Other storms in Wendell.
4 recorded storm days in Wendell, NC
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wendell / NC
Sep 4, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wendell / NC
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wendell / NC
Jul 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
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.