Storm report · St. Lawrence

Hail in Rensselaer Falls Mar 26, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Rensselaer Falls this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

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

8

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 8th most severe storm Rensselaer Falls 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
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
19 /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 Rensselaer Falls 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
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Rensselaer Falls, NY on Mar 26, 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 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Rensselaer Falls, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Mar 26, 2026 sits in Rensselaer Falls's hail record

This was Rensselaer Falls's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 29 days after the Feb 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rensselaer Falls at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Mar 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rensselaer Falls: the same system put hail over 316 other tracked cities, 3 of them in New York. Nearest: Canton (5 miles east, up to 0.75"); Richville (14 miles south, up to 0.5"); Madrid (15 miles north, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Rensselaer Falls's Mar 26, 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 Rensselaer Falls. 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.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Rensselaer Falls roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$96K

Potential roof exposure — 8 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Rensselaer Falls on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Rensselaer Falls storm history — this Mar 26, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Rensselaer Falls hail history

13 recorded storm days in Rensselaer Falls, NY

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Other storms in Rensselaer Falls

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.