StormProof → sample report
What a report actually looks like
Below is every section of the report, in order, and why it’s there. The example is a real report for an address near the May 28, 2026 hail path west of Fort Worth — generated by the same system your subscription uses, hosted on HailEvidence like every report we produce.
1. The header: address, window, vintage
The property address (or coordinates), the verification window, when the report was generated, and the vintage of the data it was generated from. Vintage matters: NCEI re-compiles Storm Events files, and a report should say which compile it used. Permanent link — the report an adjuster opens in October is the report you generated in June.
2. The disputed-date finding
If a date of loss was entered, the report leads with a plain-English finding: “NWS records document 1.25-inch (half dollar size) hail 2.1 miles from this address on May 28, 2026. Source: SPC storm report (preliminary).” One sentence, fully cited, no adjectives.
3. Event tables: 1, 3 and 10 miles
Every NWS-recorded hail and wind event in the window, grouped by ring. Each row:
date, max hail size / max gust, distance from the address, the official NWS narrative, and the source —
Storm Events (final) up to its compile horizon, SPC (preliminary) after it. No event
is double-counted; older county-level records are labeled honestly as county-level matches, never given a
fake distance.
4. The appeal-letter draft
A drafted claim-appeal letter that recites only what the cited records show, hard-labeled as a draft for the policyholder to edit — not legal advice, not public adjusting. It saves the homeowner from staring at a blank page; it does not pretend to represent them.
5. Methodology and the honesty block
Sources, distance math, units, and limits — including this, verbatim, on every report: “NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.” A report that claimed more would be easier to sell and useless in a dispute.