Hail size 1.25"
9 SW Sylvester Boone County
“At least quarter sized hail to potentially half dollar sized hail. Social media picture. Time estimated based on radar. (RLX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Bim Feb 19, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bim this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
408
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Bim 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.
2.9 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 52 /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 Bim 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-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Feb 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bim, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Feb 19, 2026 sits in Bim's hail record
This was Bim's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bim at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bim: the same system put hail over 64 other tracked cities, 1 of them in West Virginia. Nearest: Dunlow (39 miles west, up to 0.5"); Boons Camp (55 miles west, up to 0.5"); Salyersville (78 miles west, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Bim's Feb 19, 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 1.25"
6 W Whitesville Boone County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (RLX)”
— 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 Sylvester and Whitesville — beyond Bim itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Bim roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$4.9M
Potential roof exposure — 408 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around February 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Bim on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Bim storm history — this Feb 19, 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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Bim hail history
← All hail in Bim 2 recorded storm days in Bim, WV
Other storms in Bim
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 2, 2026.