Wind gust 68 mph
Lower Alloways Creek Salem County
“A 68 mph wind gust was measured at the Lower Alloways Creek mesonet site along the Delaware Bay. (PHI)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Middletown Jul 5, 2026
Hit 29 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
Largest hailstone
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
1
1 windMiddletown's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
0.2 /10
- Hail size
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Middletown saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 5, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 5, 2026 sits in Middletown's hail record
This was Middletown'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 Middletown at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Middletown: the same system put hail over 971 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Delaware. Nearest: Wilmington (15 miles north, up to 0"); Elkton (19 miles northwest, up to 1"); North East (22 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Middletown's Jul 5, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
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
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Lower Alloways Creek — beyond Middletown itself.
What 0" hail means for Middletown roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Middletown on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Middletown storm history — this Jul 5, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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Middletown hail history
← All hail in Middletown 1 recorded storm day in Middletown, DE
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.