NOAA weather radar detected hail over 18 of the 1000 US cities we track on this date, across 7 states (GA, LA, NC, OH, SC, TX, VA) — 57 radar detections in total. The most active was Galveston, TX with 12.
Check a specific address for this date →These dates are GMT, not local. GMT runs 5–8 hours ahead of the US, so a storm that hit at 8:30 PM local on one evening is recorded here under the following date. Evening storms are the norm across the Plains and the Southeast. If you are writing a date of loss on a claim form, check the local time — being one day off is a real reason a carrier can push back.
| City | Radar detections |
|---|---|
| Galveston, TX | 12 |
| Hamilton, OH | 6 |
| Lynchburg, VA | 6 |
| Danville, VA | 5 |
| Raleigh, NC | 5 |
| Roanoke, VA | 5 |
| Apex, NC | 3 |
| Cary, NC | 3 |
| Fayetteville, NC | 2 |
| High Point, NC | 2 |
| Burlington, NC | 1 |
| Concord, NC | 1 |
| Gastonia, NC | 1 |
| Huntersville, NC | 1 |
| Rock Hill, SC | 1 |
| San Marcos, TX | 1 |
| Shreveport, LA | 1 |
| Valdosta, GA | 1 |
These are city-centre tiles. To see whether radar registered hail over your street on May 2, 2016 — and every other date going back to 1992 — run the free address lookup. No signup, no account, and you can download the result as a CSV.
Look up your address →What a detection means. Counts describe a 0.1° grid tile — roughly 7 miles north to south — containing the city, not a specific address. A detection inside the tile does not prove hail fell on any particular roof, and no detection does not prove none fell. This is a screening tool, not an insurance claim, a loss report, or an engineering inspection.
NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory,
dataset nx3hail — NEXRAD Level-III Hail Detection Algorithm output. Public-domain US
government data.
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