Hail size 2.5"
Bumpass Louisa County
“Delayed report of a hail stone picture estimated at 2.5 inches. (AKQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Mineral Jul 26, 2026
Hit 8 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mineral this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
3,698
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Mineral 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.
5.3 /10
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 71 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Mineral saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
2"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mineral, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Mineral's hail record
This was Mineral's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mineral at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mineral: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 31 of them in Virginia. Nearest: Bumpass (8 miles east, up to 1.5"); Beaverdam (11 miles east, up to 1.75"); Louisa (11 miles west, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Mineral's Jul 26, 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
2 reports Hail size 2"
Fredericks Hall Louisa County
“Delayed report. Trained spotter estimated 2 inch hail in Fredericks Hall. In addition... some tree tops were snapped. (AKQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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 Bumpass and Fredericks Hall — beyond Mineral itself.
What 2" hail means for Mineral roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$44M
Potential roof exposure — 3,698 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
18 jobs
Illustrative work
~$270K
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 Mineral on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mineral storm history — this Jul 26, 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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Mineral hail history
← All hail in Mineral 2 recorded storm days in Mineral, VA
Other storms in Mineral
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.