Hail in Buffalo Jun 17, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Buffalo this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft1,059
0
none filedThe most severe storm Buffalo has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Buffalo saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Buffalo, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 17, 2026 sits in Buffalo's hail record
This was Buffalo's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 32 days after the May 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Buffalo at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Buffalo: the same system put hail over 294 other tracked cities, 134 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Riverton (5 miles west, up to 1.75"); Mechanicsburg (7 miles south, up to 2.25"); Illiopolis (9 miles southeast, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Buffalo's Jun 17, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Buffalo. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 2.25" hail means for Buffalo roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,059 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Buffalo on the live map
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