Hail size 1.25"
2 S Johnson City Broome County
“(BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Broome
Hail in Binghamton · Aug 12, 2026
Hit 31 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Binghamton that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 11,278
Ground reports 13 13 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Binghamton has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 81 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Binghamton saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 12, 2026 · Binghamton, NY
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 12, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Binghamton, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 12, 2026 sits in Binghamton's hail record.
This was Binghamton's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Aug 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Binghamton at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Binghamton: the same system put hail over 507 other tracked cities, 22 of them in New York. Nearest: Vestal (5 miles west, up to 1"); Kirkwood (5 miles east, up to 1"); Conklin (9 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Binghamton storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
13 reports filed with the NWS
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
13 reports Hail size 1.5"
2 SSE Johnson City Broome County
“Radar estimated time. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
2 WSW Binghamton Broome County
“Radar estimated time. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 SSW Binghamton Broome County
“(BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 SSW Binghamton Broome County
“Radar estimated hail. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
1 S Binghamton Broome County
“Radar estimated time. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 SSW Binghamton Broome County
“(BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 SSW Binghamton Broome County
“Radar estimated time. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 SSW Binghamton Broome County
“Radar estimated time. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
1 S Binghamton Broome County
“(BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 S Binghamton Broome County
“(BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
1 S Binghamton Broome County
“Corrects previous hail report from 1 S Binghamton. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
1 WSW Binghamton Broome County
“(BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 11 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Johnson City — beyond Binghamton itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Binghamton roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
11,278 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$135M
Potential roof exposure — 11,278 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 56 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$840K
Close just 0.5% of the 11,278 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.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $2,368 on top of the $150 plan.
Binghamton hail history
Other storms in Binghamton.
4 recorded storm days in Binghamton, NY
Estimated-size surface Storm date Binghamton / NY
Aug 7, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Binghamton / NY
Jul 3, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Binghamton / NY
Mar 31, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
3 ground reports Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 13, 2026.