We check public National Weather Service records for hail and damaging wind reported near any South Carolina address, and tell you exactly what was reported and how far away.
Pick your address from the list so we get the right spot. A street name on its own isn't enough to place a house on the map — we need the city or ZIP code too.
Works for any South Carolina address. We serve Columbia and the surrounding Midlands, and take work elsewhere in the state by arrangement.
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What this report is. A record of hail and wind reported to the National Weather Service near your address, plus hail detected by weather radar. Every entry shows how far the report was from your address so you can judge how relevant it is.
What it is not. It is not an inspection, and it is not a finding that your home is damaged. Storm reports are single observations, not maps of where hail fell — hail lands in narrow, patchy swaths, so one street can be hit hard while the next is untouched. A report near your address means it's worth having someone look at your roof. It does not mean your roof is damaged, and nobody can tell you it is without getting up there.
What we filter out. Hail under three-quarters of an inch isn't listed, and measured wind gusts below 50 mph aren't either — below those points there's very little for anyone to look at. But reports of wind damage are always listed even though they carry no speed: those come from a person who saw something break, with no instrument involved. A missing number there means nobody measured it, not that the wind was mild.
Two kinds of hail entry. A spotter size was measured by a person after the stones landed. A radar size is estimated by weather radar from inside the storm, and NOAA notes these estimates tend to run large. Radar earns its place by covering areas where nobody was present to file a report, not by being the more precise of the two.
Gaps worth knowing about. Weather radar reliably detects hail only from 2013 onward. Storm reports depend on a person being present to file one, so a storm over open land may never be recorded at all. An empty report means nothing was reported near you — not that no weather occurred.
Data: NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory (radar hail); Iowa State University Environmental Mesonet archive of National Weather Service local storm reports; station wind observations by Visual Crossing Weather; address lookup by Geocodio, LocationIQ and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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After a bad night of weather the question is always the same: did it hit us? This tool answers the part that is a matter of record. It pulls every hail and damaging-wind report the National Weather Service has logged near your address in the last five years, plus radar hail estimates and measured station gusts, and lays them out with dates and distances so you can see exactly what passed over.
It reports weather, not damage. A 1.5-inch hail report a mile away means hail that size was seen a mile away; whether it marked your shingles depends on your roof, its age and its pitch. Wind labels are the National Weather Service's own thresholds, not a claim about your house. When you want to know what the weather actually did, that takes a person on a ladder — and we do that inspection free.
Homeowners who suspect a storm and want facts before calling anyone; buyers checking a house's weather history; anyone who has had a door-knocker tell them there was “a big hailstorm” and wants to see the record. If you would also like to know what a replacement should cost, the free roof measurement takes thirty seconds.
A free lookup of the public storm record for your address: every hail report and damaging-wind report the National Weather Service has logged nearby in the last five years, with the date, the size or speed, and how far from your house it was. It tells you what passed over, not what it did to your roof.
No. It means a storm strong enough to be reported passed near your address. Roofs differ, and the only way to know is to look. That is why the report ends with an offer of a free inspection, not a conclusion.
National Weather Service local storm reports (through Iowa State's archive), NOAA radar hail estimates, and measured station wind gusts from Visual Crossing. Hail under three quarters of an inch and gusts under 50 mph are left out so the report is not padded.
Five years. Radar hail detection is reliable from 2013, and spotter reports depend on somebody having been there to file one, so an empty year means nothing was reported, not that nothing happened.
You read the report on screen and we email you a copy. If you would like a free roof inspection, ask on the form or call (803) 258-0842. Nobody shows up unless you ask.
No. South Carolina law does not allow a contractor to negotiate or advise on a homeowner's insurance claim, and we do not. We can inspect the roof, document what we find, and repair or replace it.