Hail Damage Blog

OK, so I've been digging around to try and find some confirmation of the hail damage report out of Malvern, AR from yesterday evening with only a little success. I haven't been able to completely confirm that there was actually any damaging hail inside Malvern itself.

I have been able to come up with this picture of some nice size hail stones in the small town of Prattsville, Ar, which, as you can see here, is about half way between Malvern and Sheridan, AR. This report is from out in the middle of the countryside and isn't really worth chasing, so there is no way I'm going to call this report legitimate yet, or advise anyone to run it.

I'll let you know if I'm able to find anything else.

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Sorry to disturb your January guys, but it looks like it's already time to load the truck and hit the road again. I have been watching this system develop across Arkansas this evening, and there really isn't any surprise that a decent size town got hit.

I can confirm that Newport, Arkansas, in Jackson county (not Ouchita county like the weather service reported) got hit with golfball to baseball size hail stones this evening. KAIT TV out of Jonesboro, AR has a story about the damage here. There are several pictures of the hailstones next to the story.

I'm not going to steal their images, but if you just want to look at the pictures, you can see them here, here, here and here. These are all from either in Newport, or Diaz, AR, a little town on the north side of Newport.

I haven't been able to confirm any of the other hail reports from Malvern, AR, Brinkley, AR or south of Pine Bluff, AR, but as soon as I can find out any information on these other hailstorms I'll get it posted.

Good hunting, and drive careful!

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The hail storms that moved through northern Georgia, including the Atlanta metro area, yesterday evening and last night came at a bad time to get much in the way of picture confirmations from citizens but I have been able to find some. It is obviously very early in the game for there to be much in the way of storm damage reporting but my initial assessment of the Georgia hail damage reports is that most of them were exaggerated. The vast majority of pictures I have been able to find have shown pea to quarter size hail stones, and not very many of them. There were a few images of hail stones capable of producing hail damage to cars and those are listed below.

Mableton, Georgia
Douglasville, Georgia
Bethlehem, Georgia
Auburn, Georgia (This is by far the best looking hail damage report so far.)
Cartersville, Georgia

As I said above, the hail damage report out of Auburn, GA is the most legitimate looking one so far. If I were going to run this storm, I would go straight to Auburn and skip the other stuff. You could easily waste three days looking around the Atlanta metro for damage that may or may not exist.

Of course, you should always do what your gut tells you and not put too much confidence in some anonymous guy from the internet. This is just my opinion based on the information at hand right this minute. It could change as more hail damage report confirmations come out.

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This list of hail damage report confirmations is long and covers a very large swath of real estate. It took a couple of days to gather all of these confirmations from several different sources. I made notes as I went along as well as plotting the reports on my map also. I know you guys are used to me providing links to my confirmation sources but this time there were simply too many sources gathered over too long a time frame for me to keep up with so you are just going to have to take my word for it or do your own research but I guarantee you that each of the following hail damage report confirmations has been verified through either photos, video, or first person witness reports.

I have verified hail stones of a size capable of producing damage to cars and roofs at the following locations in Tennessee;

Tennessee Ridge, TN
Erin, TN
Linden, TN
Flatwoods, TN
Hohenwald, TN
Waynesboro, TN
Lawrenceburg, TN
Lewisburg, TN
Shelbyville, TN
Manchester, TN
Estill Springs, TN
Bell Buckle, TN
Cookeville, TN

I'm sure, like any good storm chaser, you have looked these towns up and seen that several of them are pretty small but if you plot them on your map you will also see that they are clustered together in groups. There are also several confirmations of hail damage in the rural county areas around and between these small towns. That's why they were included in this report.

You'll also notice I have not included Murphreesboro, TN in this report. I left them out because, from what I can see in the news reports, the whole town is considered a tornado zone with some significant damage. You are going to be hard pressed to get a report out of that area for anything not related to tornado damage. There is almost certainly some hail damage in the area and possibly in the town itself but there is no way to confirm it yet.

Be careful out there and keep those prices up. I'll be posting more hail damage confirmations as I get them.

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Well, it looks like the price of hail damage repair just went up!

There are so many hail damage reports with this round that I am going to post the damage confirmations as I find them in regional groups. I can tell you this for sure, there is a lot more damage out there than is on the reports so don't be afraid to think outside the box and do a little bit of old school storm chasing. You know, the kind where you plot the storm tracks on your map and then follow it looking for damage. There is going to be some hail damage out there that doesn't get found by more than a few people, try to be one of them.

These hail damage report confirmations are from North Alabama. I'm sure there are a lot more from this area but my desktop is getting full and I need to get some of these posted so, here goes.

Cullman, Alabama



Gadsden, Alabama



Madison, Alabama



Northern Alabama



I included that last one just for the hell of it. Like I said, I know there is a lot more hail damage that will be confirmed from this area but this is what I've got for the moment. I've got a whole string of hail damage report confirmations in Tennessee that I will be getting posted tonight so be sure to check back in later.

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It looks like the whole north side of the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex had a series of nasty storms move across last night and I've been able to run down a few hail damage report confirmations for you so far this morning. So far I have been able to find confirmations of the hail reports in the following cities and towns of north Texas;

Grapevine, Texas

Keller, Texas

Southlake, Texas

Roanoke, Texas

Agnes, Texas

Springtown, Texas

I have been able to confirm the damaging hail reports in these towns through news reports and pictures that I found here, here and here. It looks like the heaviest hit area is going to be from Keller to Southlake and over to Grapevine with hailstone sizes making it up to nearly baseball size. I'm also picking up some chatter about damaging hail in the Watauga, Copell and Colleyville, TX areas but I haven't been able to confirm anything yet.

There is probably quite a bit of good golf ball size hail damage to a lot of cars all the way across the entire northern metroplex. Unfortunately, these areas get hit frequently enough that the folks just aren't that excited about reporting anything smaller than baseball hail.

That's it for now but we'll keep our eyes open and ours to the ground so we can bring you any more hail damage report confirmations as soon as we find them. Good luck!

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This hail damage confirmation report is a but of a mixed bag because, while it does contain some actual confirmations, it also is going to report about a lack of information at all concerning other hail reports. I was able to find some images of some of the hail that fell in Louisiana here. The towns with confirmed hail damage reports are;

Longville, Louisiana

Ragley, Louisiana

Unfortunately, I have not been able to turn up any kind of confirmation at all for the hail damage reports out of Eunice, Louisiana or Franklin, Louisiana. I have been able to find a lot of information about a storm that hit Franklin but it is all talking about heavy wind or tornado damage there is not any mention or photos of hail damage at all.

The towns that have been confirmed for damaging hail are pretty small and would hardly warrant a trip by themselves but if you are headed over to run the Texas hail damage north of Houston, it might be worth checking out.

That's all of the hail damage report confirmations I have for now but I will be posting some random information I have picked up through a few conversations and emails with several people out there running the roads. So check back soon for some more hail damage confirmations and info.

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After wading through all the pictures in the gallery here, I was able to get confirmations on the hail damage reports for the following Texas towns;

Conroe, TX - From the pictures, some of this hail was really bad.

Cleveland, TX

Humble, TX

Cut and Shoot, TX - I've been through several times but never stopped. I always wanted to be able to say I had worked there.

Crosby, TX


That's what I've been able to uncover so far about the Texas hail reports. I am developing some information about the Louisiana hail reports htat I'll be posting a little later.

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The hail damage reports from Austin, Texas and the areas to the northwest of the metro are totally legitimate. The pictures I have been looking at show a widespread hailstorm across the Northwest part of Austin with some heavily hail damaged cars. This storm came through at or near the evening rush hour and caught a ton of cars on the highway in mid commute. This is the list of confirmations I have verified so far;

NW Austin, TX - At Spicewood near Bull Creek / Cypress Creek & Lakeline / 620 & El Saliba

Marble Falls, TX

Lago Vista, TX

I don't know if these are towns or subdivisions but I have hail damage confirmations for Cottonwood and Cedar Park also.

This is a pretty big storm guys. Some of this hail is very large too. It looks like there is going to be a lot of broken glass and paint but there should be a lot of good work also. Here are some picture resources you can check out here and here.

There have probably already been more reports since I started writing this post so I will be bringing you up-to-date hail damage report confirmations as soon as I make them.

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