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 West Creek Jul 16, 2026
Hit 18 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over West Creek this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
23,477
Ground reports
4
4 hailWest Creek'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.
5.1 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 87 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 West Creek 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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over West Creek, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in West Creek's hail record
This was West Creek'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 West Creek at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than West Creek: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 14 of them in New Jersey. Nearest: Tuckerton (3 miles west, up to 1.25"); Manahawkin (4 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Little Egg Harbor Twp (6 miles northwest, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from West Creek'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
4 reports Hail size 1"
Manahawkin Ocean County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PHI)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 SE Stafford Twp. Ocean County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PHI)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 WNW Manahawkin Ocean County
“Measured 1 inch hail. (PHI)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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
Hail was reported over 64 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Warren Grove, Manahawkin, and Stafford Twp. — beyond West Creek itself.
What 1.25" hail means for West Creek 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
$282M
Potential roof exposure — 23,477 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
117 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.8M
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 West Creek on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full West Creek 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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West Creek hail history
← All hail in West Creek 1 recorded storm day in West Creek, 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 1, 2026.