Storm report · Morgan

Hail in Sunbright Jul 3, 2026

Hit 31 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 6 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1.75"

≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

91

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Sunbright has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

3.6 /10
Hail size
44 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
39 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Sunbright saw the hail — from two instruments

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Sunbright, TN on Jul 3, 2026

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 1.75" Detections 6
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Sunbright, TN on Jul 3, 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"
The storm in context

Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in Sunbright's hail record

This was Sunbright's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 93 days after the Apr 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sunbright at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sunbright: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 176 of them in Tennessee. Nearest: Lancing (7 miles south, up to 2"); Wartburg (9 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Robbins (13 miles northeast, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Sunbright's Jul 3, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.

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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Sunbright. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.75" hail means for Sunbright roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.1M

Potential roof exposure — 91 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Sunbright on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Sunbright storm history — this Jul 3, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Sunbright hail history

2 recorded storm days in Sunbright, TN

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Other storms in Sunbright

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 surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.