Hail in Birmingham on Thursday, February 26, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Birmingham on Thursday, February 26, 2026, between 2:41 pm and 7:35 pm CST, in 4 of the metro's 5 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at Susan Moore (Blount County) at 7:23 pm. NOAA radar flagged 414 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 20 rated a 100% chance of hail and 24 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 9 places in Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair and Walker counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Susan Moore 2 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Trussville 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Altoona 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Blountsville 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Cropwell 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Grayson Valley 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Moody 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Pinson 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Powellville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Standard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:41 pm | 1.00 | 2 SSW Powellville | Walker | Social media photos of quarter-size hail in the Pineywoods area. (BMX) |
| 3:33 pm | 1.25 | Pinson | Jefferson | Quarter to half dollar-size hail in the Pinson area. In addition... copious amounts of small hail coated the ground... resulting in fog formation. (BMX) |
| 3:40 pm | 1.75 | Grayson Valley | Jefferson | Ping pong to golf ball-sized hail in the Chalkville and Clay areas. (BMX) |
| 3:45 pm | 1.75 | Trussville | Jefferson | Ping-pong to golf ball-sized hail in the Trussville area. (BMX) |
| 3:47 pm | 1.00 | 2 NE Trussville | Jefferson | Quarter-size hail on Hwy 11 bear Deerfoot Pkwy. (BMX) |
| 3:58 pm | 2.00 | 1 NE Moody | St. Clair | Up to 2-inch size hail estimated from a social media picture. (BMX) |
| 4:17 pm | 1.00 | 3 W Cropwell | St. Clair | Up to quarter-size hail in the Pell City area. (BMX) |
| 7:11 pm | 2.00 | Blountsville | Blount | Reports of 2-inch hail in Blountsville. (BMX) |
| 7:22 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Susan Moore | Blount | Up to quarter-size hail in Susan Moore. (BMX) |
| 7:23 pm | 2.00 | Susan Moore | Blount | Up to 2-inch hail in the Susan Moore area via social media pictures. (BMX) |
| 7:35 pm | 1.75 | 3 W Altoona | Blount | Up to golf ball-size hail on the Blount County side of Altoona. (BMX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
414 signatures from 5 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; 20 were rated 100% and 18 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 | 160 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4.00 in | 6:04 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KBMX | 94 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4.00 in | 6:03 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KGWX | 84 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3.50 in | 6:01 pm | 11:59 pm |
| KFFC | 72 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3.75 in | 6:00 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KEOX | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 11:46 pm | 11:59 pm |
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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