Storm report · Sullivan

Hail in Carlisle Jan 8, 2026

NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Carlisle has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

1.5 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Carlisle saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Carlisle, IN on Jan 8, 2026

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 0

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jan 8, 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 Jan 8, 2026 sits in Carlisle's hail record

This was Carlisle's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Carlisle at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jan 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Carlisle: the same system put hail over 35 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Linton (16 miles east, up to 1"); Lawrenceville (20 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Jasonville (20 miles east, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Carlisle's Jan 8, 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.

Ground reports

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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Carlisle. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Carlisle roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

Track hail over Carlisle on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Carlisle storm history — this Jan 8, 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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Carlisle hail history

6 recorded storm days in Carlisle, IN

← All hail in Carlisle

Other storms in Carlisle

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 2, 2026.