Hail size 2"
De Peyster St. Lawrence County
“Social media image of large hailstones ranging from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter. (BTV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in De Kalb Junction Jul 14, 2026
Hit 20 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over De Kalb Junction this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.75"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,503
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe most severe storm De Kalb Junction 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.
6.5 /10
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 64 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 De Kalb Junction 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.
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
2.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over De Kalb Junction, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 14, 2026 sits in De Kalb Junction's hail record
This was De Kalb Junction's 17th recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over De Kalb Junction at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than De Kalb Junction: the same system put hail over 130 other tracked cities, 19 of them in New York. Nearest: Hermon (5 miles east, up to 1.25"); Richville (7 miles south, up to 2.75"); Rensselaer Falls (7 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from De Kalb Junction's Jul 14, 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
3 reports Hail size 2"
De Kalb St. Lawrence County
“Social media image of many hailstones of 2 inches in diameter. (BTV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
De Kalb St. Lawrence County
“1.5 inch hail estimated from social media picture. (BTV)”
— 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 10 minutes, from to .
Reports came from De Peyster and De Kalb — beyond De Kalb Junction itself.
What 2.75" hail means for De Kalb Junction roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$18M
Potential roof exposure — 1,503 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
8 jobs
Illustrative work
~$120K
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.
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De Kalb Junction hail history
← All hail in De Kalb Junction 17 recorded storm days in De Kalb Junction, NY
Other storms in De Kalb Junction
Jul 4, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 25, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 17, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 9, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 1, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 3, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 31, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 30, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 29, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 25, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 15, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 5, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jan 4, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.