Hail in West Augusta Jul 4, 2026
Hit 30 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 13 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature96
0
none filedThe most severe storm West Augusta has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 40 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 West Augusta 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.
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.
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.
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in West Augusta's hail record
This was West Augusta's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 52 days after the May 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over West Augusta at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than West Augusta: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 122 of them in Virginia. Nearest: Swoope (6 miles southeast, up to 2.25"); Churchville (6 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Head Waters (6 miles northwest, up to 2").
These maps are stills from West Augusta's Jul 4, 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.
For this storm over West Augusta, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 2.25" hail means for West Augusta 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.
$1.2M
Potential roof exposure — 96 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over West Augusta on the live map
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