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
/ Storm field report · New Castle
Hail in Middletown · Jul 5, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface had no signal that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 NEXRAD only
Convective day · Jul 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Middletown's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 0.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
0.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Middletown saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 5, 2026 · Middletown, DE
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 Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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.
The storm in context
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: Elkton (19 miles northwest, up to 1"); Wilmington (21 miles north, up to 0"); Swedesboro (21 miles northeast, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Middletown 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
1 report 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
1 reportStorm 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 Lower Alloways Creek — beyond Middletown itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Middletown roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Middletown hail history
Middletown's hail record.
1 recorded storm day in Middletown, DE
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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 Aug 3, 2026.