Storm report · Oxford

Hail in South Paris Jul 9, 2026

Hit 25 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over South Paris this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

1

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

South Paris's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

0.9 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
6 /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 South Paris saw the hail — from two instruments

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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over South Paris, ME on Jul 9, 2026

The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 9, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over South Paris, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 9, 2026 sits in South Paris's hail record

This was South Paris'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 South Paris at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than South Paris: the same system put hail over 944 other tracked cities, 1 of them in Maine. Nearest: West Paris (0 miles north, up to 0.5"); Lancaster (51 miles west, up to 0.5"); Guildhall (56 miles west, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from South Paris's Jul 9, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over South Paris 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 South Paris roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$12K

Potential roof exposure — 1 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over South Paris on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full South Paris storm history — this Jul 9, 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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South Paris hail history

1 recorded storm day in South Paris, ME

← All hail in South Paris
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 1, 2026.