Hail in Lockport Jul 18, 2026
Hit 16 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lockport this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft952
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Lockport has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Lockport 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 over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lockport, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in Lockport's hail record
This was Lockport's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 29 days after the Jun 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lockport at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lockport: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 45 of them in New York. Nearest: Ransomville (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Sanborn (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Stella Niagara (12 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Lockport's Jul 18, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Lockport for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.5" hail means for Lockport roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$11M
Potential roof exposure — 952 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Lockport on the live map
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2 recorded storm days in Lockport, NY
