Hail size 1"
Franklin Lakes Bergen County
“Social media report with image. (OKX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Franklin Lakes Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Franklin Lakes this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
19,123
Ground reports
1
1 hailFranklin Lakes'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.
3.5 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 86 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Franklin Lakes 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 hail size
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.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Franklin Lakes, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Franklin Lakes's hail record
This was Franklin Lakes'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 Franklin Lakes at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Franklin Lakes: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 16 of them in New Jersey. Nearest: Little Falls (7 miles south, up to 0.75"); Woodland Park (7 miles south, up to 0.75"); Airmont (9 miles northeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Franklin Lakes's Jul 27, 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.
Hail reports
1 reportWhat 0.75" hail means for Franklin Lakes roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$229M
Potential roof exposure — 19,123 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
96 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.4M
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 Franklin Lakes on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Franklin Lakes storm history — this Jul 27, 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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Franklin Lakes hail history
← All hail in Franklin Lakes 1 recorded storm day in Franklin Lakes, NJ
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 3, 2026.