Hail in Mount Carbon Apr 29, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mount Carbon this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Mount Carbon 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Mount Carbon saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mount Carbon, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 29, 2026 sits in Mount Carbon's hail record
This was Mount Carbon's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mount Carbon at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mount Carbon: the same system put hail over 248 other tracked cities. Nearest: Stoneville (133 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Reidsville (150 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Burlington (173 miles southeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Mount Carbon's Apr 29, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Mount Carbon for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.5" hail means for Mount Carbon roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Mount Carbon on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mount Carbon storm history — this Apr 29, 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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3 recorded storm days in Mount Carbon, WV
