Wind gust 62 mph
1 WSW Catholic Universi District of Colum County
“Wind gust of 62 mph measured on Lamont St NW (KDCWASHI300 PWS) (LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · District of Columbia
Hail in Washington · Sep 3, 2026
Hit 9 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Washington that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,779
Ground reports 5 5 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Sep 3, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Washington's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.4 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.4 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 65 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Washington saw the hail — from two instruments
Sep 3, 2026 · Washington, DC
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 3, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Washington, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 3, 2026 sits in Washington's hail record.
This was Washington's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Washington at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Washington: the same system put hail over 494 other tracked cities. Nearest: Arlington (5 miles west, up to 1"); Oakton (16 miles west, up to 0.5"); Lothian (20 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Washington storm date on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
5 reports filed with the NWS
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Wind reports
5 reports Wind gust 63 mph
1 SW National Arboretum District of Colum County
“Wind gust of 63 mph measured on D St NE (KDCWASHI556 PWS) (LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 59 mph
Reagan National Aiirpor Arlington County
“DCA gusted to 59 mph at 11:47 pm. (LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 64 mph
Reagan National Aiirpor Arlington County
“DCA also gusted to 64 mph. (LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 64 mph
Reagan National Arpt Arlington County
“Measured wind gust of 64 mph at DCA. (LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Catholic Universi, National Arboretum, Reagan National Aiirpor, and Reagan National Arpt — beyond Washington itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Washington roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
1,779 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$21M
Potential roof exposure — 1,779 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 9 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$135K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,779 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $374 on top of the $150 plan.
Washington hail history
Washington's hail record.
1 recorded storm day in Washington, DC
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 4, 2026.