Hail in Buffalo · Jun 8, 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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Convective day · Jun 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th 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.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Buffalo saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jun 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 Jun 8, 2026 sits in Buffalo's hail record.
This was Buffalo's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the May 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Buffalo at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Buffalo: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 173 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Iola (18 miles northeast, up to 1"); Neodesha (21 miles south, up to 0"); Colony (23 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Buffalo storm dates 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
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Buffalo for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Buffalo 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
Buffalo hail history
Other storms in Buffalo.
Sep 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 31, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 23, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Feb 13, 2026
0.75"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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