Hail in Medway · Oct 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Medway that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Oct 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Medway 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
- 13 /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 Medway 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.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Oct 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Medway, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Oct 18, 2026 sits in Medway's hail record.
This was Medway's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 42 days after the Sep 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medway at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
Medway was the only tracked city this system reached on Oct 18, 2026 — a locally confined cell rather than a regional outbreak.
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Medway 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 Medway 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 0.5" hail means for Medway 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
Medway hail history
Other storms in Medway.
Estimated-size surface Oct 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 30, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 21, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jan 13, 2026
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