Hail in Woonsocket · Feb 23, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Woonsocket that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Feb 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Woonsocket has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Woonsocket saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Feb 23, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Woonsocket, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Feb 23, 2026 sits in Woonsocket's hail record.
This was Woonsocket's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Woonsocket at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Woonsocket: the same system put hail over 3 other tracked cities, 1 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Alpena (11 miles north, up to 0.5"); Stoneboro (944 miles east, up to 0.5"); Lisbon (1142 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Woonsocket 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
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.
For this storm over Woonsocket, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Woonsocket 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
Woonsocket hail history
Other storms in Woonsocket.
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 4, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 29, 2026
0.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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