Storm report · St. Lawrence

Hail in Madrid Jan 1, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Madrid this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

53

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 22nd most severe storm Madrid 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.

1.6 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
35 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Madrid saw the hail — from two instruments

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
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jan 1, 2026

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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jan 1, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Madrid, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jan 1, 2026 sits in Madrid's hail record

This was Madrid's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 22nd of the 26 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Madrid at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

Madrid was the only tracked city this system reached on Jan 1, 2026 — a locally confined cell rather than a regional outbreak.

These maps are stills from Madrid's Jan 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.

Ground reports

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.

For this storm over Madrid, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Madrid 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$636K

Potential roof exposure — 53 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around January 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Madrid on the live map

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Madrid hail history

26 recorded storm days in Madrid, NY

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Other storms in Madrid

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Aug 2, 2026

Aug 2, 2026

0.5"
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Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jul 28, 2026

Jul 28, 2026

1.5"
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Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jul 27, 2026

Jul 27, 2026

0.5"
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Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jul 25, 2026

Jul 25, 2026

1"
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Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jul 18, 2026

Jul 18, 2026

0.5"
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Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jun 25, 2026

Jun 25, 2026

2.5"
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Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jun 23, 2026

Jun 23, 2026

1"
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Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jun 11, 2026

Jun 11, 2026

1.5"
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Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on May 16, 2026

May 16, 2026

1"
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Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026

1.25"
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Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on May 8, 2026

May 8, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on May 6, 2026

May 6, 2026

2.25"
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Estimated 2.25"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on May 1, 2026

May 1, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Apr 29, 2026

Apr 29, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Apr 1, 2026

Apr 1, 2026

2"
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Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Mar 31, 2026

Mar 31, 2026

2"
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Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Mar 30, 2026

Mar 30, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Mar 26, 2026

Mar 26, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Mar 16, 2026

Mar 16, 2026

3"
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Estimated 3"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Mar 3, 2026

Mar 3, 2026

0.5"
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Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Feb 22, 2026

Feb 22, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jan 28, 2026

Jan 28, 2026

1"
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Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jan 21, 2026

Jan 21, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jan 9, 2026

Jan 9, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Madrid, NY on Jan 6, 2026

Jan 6, 2026

0.75"
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Estimated 0.75"
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.