Hail on September 21, 2026: where it hit
The archived NWS Local Storm Reports for September 21, 2026 hold 19 hail reports across 7 states. The largest reported size, 1.50 inches, was logged 2 times (Garza County, Texas; Wayne County, West Virginia). Texas logged the most reports (5). Report sizes are as people reported them; radar sizes are NOAA estimates.
A storm day runs 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. Central (12:00 to 12:00 UTC), as the Storm Prediction Center counts it, so an evening storm stays on the day it fell. The radar swath covers the UTC calendar day, 7 p.m. Central the evening before to 7 p.m. Central this day.
Open the radar swath map for September 21, 2026 →Largest reported stones on September 21, 2026
The 5 largest of 19 reports with a measured size. 2 reports share the top size of 1.50 inches. Report times are not kept in the archived file, so none are shown.
| Size | County | State | Lat, Lon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.50″ | Garza County | Texas | 33.07, -101.29 |
| 1.50″ | Wayne County | West Virginia | 38.33, -82.44 |
| 1.25″ | Patrick County | Virginia | 36.82, -80.13 |
| 1.00″ | Marshall County | Alabama | 34.52, -86.25 |
| 1.00″ | Marshall County | Alabama | 34.27, -86.21 |
Counties with the most hail reports
Top 10 of 15 counties with at least one report; ties are listed by state, then name.
| County | State | Reports | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall County | Alabama | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Dade County | Georgia | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Tarrant County | Texas | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Carter County | Kentucky | 1 | 1.00″ |
| Graves County | Kentucky | 1 | 0.75″ |
| Johnson County | Tennessee | 1 | 1.00″ |
| Lawrence County | Tennessee | 1 | 0.70″ |
| Morgan County | Tennessee | 1 | 0.25″ |
| Garza County | Texas | 1 | 1.50″ |
| Lamb County | Texas | 1 | 1.00″ |
States with the most hail reports
All 7 states with reports.
- Texas: 5 reports
- Alabama: 3 reports
- Tennessee: 3 reports
- Georgia: 2 reports
- Kentucky: 2 reports
- Virginia: 2 reports
- West Virginia: 2 reports
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Questions about the September 21, 2026 hail
How big was the hail on September 21, 2026?
The largest reported stone on September 21, 2026 was 1.50 inches, among 19 reports nationwide. NOAA MRMS MESH radar also estimated the swath footprint.
Where did it hail on September 21, 2026?
Reports by state: Texas (5), Alabama (3), Tennessee (3), Georgia (2), Kentucky (2) and 2 more. Counties with the most reports: Marshall County, AL (3), Dade County, GA (2), Tarrant County, TX (2).
Did the September 21, 2026 hail hit my address?
Use the hail map's address search: it lists every dated report within 10 miles of any US address (5 or 25 if you pick) and, for days in the radar archive, tests your exact point against the estimated swath, then prints a sourced report you can keep.
How these figures are built
Reports are NWS Local Storm Reports of hail, pulled from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive. This page reads data/hail/events-2026.json (pulled 2026-11-01). Local Storm Reports are preliminary and unverified: sizes are what spotters, the public and emergency managers reported, and NOAA NCEI's Storm Data, published months later, is the verified record. A report with no size counts toward the total but not toward the size figures. Severe size means 1 inch or larger, the National Weather Service threshold. Crops can be hurt by smaller hail, especially with wind, and the loss depends on growth stage: the corn growing point stays below ground until about V6, and leaf loss near tasseling costs the most yield. State is the state named on the report. County is not carried in the archived file; it is assigned here by placing each report's coordinates (rounded to about 1 km) inside US Census cartographic county boundaries, so a report near a county line can land in the neighboring county. Radar figures are NOAA MRMS MESH, a radar estimate of maximum hail size, not a measurement.
Method: one day of hail reports, counted and ranked as filed; county placed by coordinates; severe means 1″ or larger (NWS) · Sources: NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, NOAA MRMS MESH, US Census county boundaries, Assessing Hail Damage to Corn (NCH-1) · Reviewed by Sigurd Lindquist, CCA