Hail size 1.5"
2 E Warren Grove Ocean County
“Delayed report. Reported at the Pinewood Estates neighborhood via photo from social media. Time estimated from radar. (PHI)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Waretown Jul 16, 2026
Hit 18 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Waretown this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
10,872
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Waretown 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.
4.1 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 81 /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 Waretown 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Waretown, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in Waretown's hail record
This was Waretown's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 57 days after the May 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Waretown at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Waretown: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 14 of them in New Jersey. Nearest: Barnegat (5 miles west, up to 1.25"); Manahawkin (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Little Egg Harbor Twp (9 miles southwest, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Waretown's Jul 16, 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 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Warren Grove — beyond Waretown itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Waretown 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$130M
Potential roof exposure — 10,872 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
54 jobs
Illustrative work
~$810K
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 Waretown on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Waretown storm history — this Jul 16, 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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Waretown hail history
← All hail in Waretown 2 recorded storm days in Waretown, NJ
Other storms in Waretown
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.