Hail size 1.25"
16 SSW Fouke Miller County
“Quarter to hail dollar sized hail in Ravanna. Video relayed by broadcast media. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Atlanta Apr 29, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Atlanta this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
4,153
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Atlanta 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.
4.3 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 72 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Atlanta saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Atlanta, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Atlanta's hail record
This was Atlanta's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Apr 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Atlanta at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Atlanta: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities, 116 of them in Texas. Nearest: Queen City (5 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Doddridge (12 miles east, up to 1.5"); Rodessa (14 miles southeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Atlanta's Apr 29, 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.
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.
Hail reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Fouke — beyond Atlanta itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Atlanta 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
$50M
Potential roof exposure — 4,153 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
21 jobs
Illustrative work
~$315K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Atlanta on the live map
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Atlanta hail history
← All hail in Atlanta 7 recorded storm days in Atlanta, TX
Other storms in Atlanta
Jul 6, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 22, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 8, 2026
Apr 24, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
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.