Hail in Orange County, North Carolina

Hail April 29, 2026 · Orange County, North Carolina

1 in

Hail diameter

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

One inch hail was reported near Chapel Hill.

The wider storm

Behind the northward retreat of a warm front, a cluster of showers moved along and just ahead of a cold front from Virginia into northwest North Carolina during the evening hours. These showers deepened and led to growing clusters of storms, along with one sustained supercell that brought a swath of large hail (0.75 to 1.25) and sporadic power outages and downed trees to the northern Piedmont and northern Coastal Plain during the late evening hours.

Began near Chapel Hill (35.9101, -79.0896).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1330679. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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