Storm report · Albany

Hail in Albany Apr 26, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Albany this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

4,678

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The most severe storm Albany 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.

3.3 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 73 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Albany 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 map of the storm over Albany, NY on Apr 26, 2026 — 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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Albany, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 26, 2026 sits in Albany's hail record

This was Albany's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 42 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Albany at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Albany: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities. Nearest: Rockville (729 miles west, up to 1"); Guyton (821 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Pooler (839 miles southwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Albany's Apr 26, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Albany. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Albany 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

$56M

Potential roof exposure — 4,678 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

23 jobs

Illustrative work

~$345K

Close just 0.5% of the 4,678 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Albany on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Albany storm history — this Apr 26, 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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Albany hail history

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