Wind gust 60 mph
Olcott LOZ042 County
“(BUF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Appleton Jul 1, 2026
Hit 33 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 1 hail signature up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 2nd most severe storm Appleton 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.
1.4 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Appleton saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
0.75"
Detections
1
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0.75"
Where Jul 1, 2026 sits in Appleton's hail record
This was Appleton's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Appleton at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 1, 2026 convective day was bigger than Appleton: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 121 of them in New York. Nearest: Spencerport (41 miles east, up to 1.25"); Bradford (98 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Trumansburg (111 miles southeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Appleton's Jul 1, 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.
Wind 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 Olcott — beyond Appleton itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Appleton 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.
Track hail over Appleton on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Appleton storm history — this Jul 1, 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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Appleton hail history
← All hail in Appleton 2 recorded storm days in Appleton, NY
Other storms in Appleton
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.