Hail size 1"
1 NNW Burrowsville Prince George County
“Corrects previous hail report from 1 NNW Burrowsville. Delayed report. Photo on social media of 1 to 1.25 inch hail at Wards Creek. (AKQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Prince George
Hail in North Prince George · Jul 28, 2026
NEXRAD logged 29 hail signatures up to 2.5"; the estimated-size surface reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 2.5" ≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 553
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
North Prince George's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.6 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.6 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 55 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 North Prince George saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 28, 2026 · North Prince George, VA
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
2.5"
Detections
29
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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"
The storm in context
Where Jul 28, 2026 sits in North Prince George's hail record.
This was North Prince George's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over North Prince George at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than North Prince George: the same system put hail over 686 other tracked cities, 105 of them in Virginia. Nearest: Hopewell (0 miles north, up to 2.5"); Spring Grove (9 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Disputanta (11 miles southwest, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 North Prince George storm date 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
2 reports filed with the NWS
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 1"
1 NNW Burrowsville Prince George County
“Delayed report. Photo on social media of 1 to 1.25 inch hail at Wards Creek. (AKQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 11 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Burrowsville — beyond North Prince George itself.
Severe hail signal
What 2.5" hail means for North Prince George roofs.
Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
553 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$6.6M
Potential roof exposure — 553 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 3 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 553 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $116 on top of the $150 plan.
North Prince George hail history
North Prince George's hail record.
1 recorded storm day in North Prince George, VA
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 1, 2026.