Hail in Atlanta on Thursday, June 26, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 14 hail reports in Atlanta on Thursday, June 26, 2025, between 4:23 pm and 6:24 pm EDT, in 4 of the metro's 12 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 3 ESE Mountain Park (Fulton County) at 4:45 pm. NOAA radar flagged 274 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 23 rated a 100% chance of hail and 35 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Dunwoody 4 reports, up to 1.00 in
- College Park 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Mableton 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Birmingham 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Bolton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mechanicsville 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Mountain Park 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Norcross 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Roswell 1 report, up to 1.50 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:23 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Birmingham | Fulton | Report of 1-inch hail at Birmingham Rd and Freemanville Rd. (FFC) |
| 4:45 pm | 1.75 | 3 ESE Mountain Park | Fulton | Golf-ball sized hail reported on Crabapple Lake Ct. (FFC) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.50 | 3 SE Roswell | Fulton | Hail the size of walnuts... or one and a half inches... was reported near the intersection of Northcliff Trce and Stoneglen Close. (FFC) |
| 5:00 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Norcross | Gwinnett | Picture with hail next to quarter from public near the intersection of N Peachtree Rd and Starcross Ct. (FFC) |
| 5:01 pm | 1.50 | 2 WNW Mechanicsville | DeKalb | Ping-pong sized hail reported at the 2000 block of Wallace Ln between 4:58 PM and 5:01 PM. (FFC) |
| 5:03 pm | 1.00 | 2 ENE Dunwoody | DeKalb | 1 inch hail reported at N Peachtree Rd. & Starcross Ct. (FFC) |
| 5:03 pm | 1.00 | 2 ENE Dunwoody | DeKalb | Report of 1-inch hail in Dunwoody. (FFC) |
| 5:03 pm | 1.00 | 2 NNW Dunwoody | Fulton | Report of 1-inch hail at Ison Rd NE and Roswell Rd. (FFC) |
| 5:05 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Dunwoody | Fulton | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (FFC) |
| 5:38 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW Bolton | Fulton | Report of 1-inch hail at James Jackson Pkwy and Bolton Rd NW. (FFC) |
| 5:41 pm | 1.25 | 3 ENE Mableton | Cobb | Half-dollar sized hail reported near the Vinings Estates area to the south of Smyrna. (FFC) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.00 | 2 ENE Mableton | Cobb | Quarter-sized hail reported near Mableton. (FFC) |
| 6:20 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNE College Park | Fulton | Video of quarter-sized hail between College Park and East Point. (FFC) |
| 6:24 pm | 1.00 | 3 WSW College Park | Fulton | Quarter-sized hail in southwest College Park near I-285. (FFC) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
274 signatures from 9 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 23 were rated 100% and 7 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHTX | 63 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3.00 in | 12:00 am | 4:16 am |
| KATL | 59 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1.25 in | 12:01 am | 4:01 am |
| KJGX | 42 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:04 am | 4:17 am |
| KMXX | 37 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2.25 in | 12:01 am | 4:22 am |
| KFFC | 34 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2.00 in | 12:00 am | 4:00 am |
| KGSP | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2.50 in | 12:00 am | 3:50 am |
| KBMX | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 12:32 am | 3:30 am |
| KMRX | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 12:06 am | 3:41 am |
| KEOX | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 12:45 am | 12:50 am |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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