Storm report · St. Lawrence

Hail in Madrid May 6, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Madrid this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

135

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 3rd 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.

4.4 /10

Hail size: 56 /100
Homes exposed: 43 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Madrid 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 map of the storm over Madrid, NY on May 6, 2026 — 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.

Max size 2.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 6, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Madrid, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where May 6, 2026 sits in Madrid's hail record

This was Madrid's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the May 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 26 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Madrid at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Madrid: the same system put hail over 226 other tracked cities. Nearest: Clarkesville (828 miles southwest, up to 1"); Sautee Nacoochee (831 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Cleveland (837 miles southwest, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Madrid's May 6, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Madrid. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Madrid 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

$1.6M

Potential roof exposure — 135 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

1 job

Illustrative work

~$15K

Close just 0.5% of the 135 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.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Madrid hail history

26 recorded storm days in Madrid, NY

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