Hail size 1"
Lansing Tompkins County
“From pictures sent via social media. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Ithaca Jun 30, 2026
Hit 34 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 11 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
1,491
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe most severe storm Ithaca 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.
6.1 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 63 /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 Ithaca 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
2.5"
Detections
11
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"
Where Jun 30, 2026 sits in Ithaca's hail record
This was Ithaca's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 91 days after the Mar 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ithaca at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ithaca: the same system put hail over 720 other tracked cities, 40 of them in New York. Nearest: Lansing (9 miles northwest, up to 3.25"); King Ferry (15 miles north, up to 2.5"); Scipio Center (21 miles north, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Ithaca's Jun 30, 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 1.75"
2 SE Myers Tompkins County
“Hail reported with a couple of estimated golf ball sized stones mixed in. (BGM)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
3 NW Lansing Tompkins County
“Quarter to golf size hail. (BGM)”
— 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
Reports came from Lansing and Myers — beyond Ithaca itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Ithaca 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 — 1,491 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
7 jobs
Illustrative work
~$105K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Ithaca hail history
← All hail in Ithaca 4 recorded storm days in Ithaca, NY
Other storms in Ithaca
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.