Hail in Mount Pleasant · May 8, 2026
Convective day · May 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 14th most severe storm Mount Pleasant 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
- 0 /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 Mount Pleasant 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.
Radar signature field 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.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
The storm in context
Where May 8, 2026 sits in Mount Pleasant's hail record.
This was Mount Pleasant's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the May 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mount Pleasant at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mount Pleasant: the same system put hail over 378 other tracked cities, 85 of them in Texas. Nearest: Leesburg (14 miles south, up to 1.75"); Scroggins (15 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Saltillo (17 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Mount Pleasant 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Mount Pleasant. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Mount Pleasant 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
Mount Pleasant hail history
Other storms in Mount Pleasant.
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 8, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 16, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 22, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface May 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 29, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 24, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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