Storm report · St. Lawrence

Hail in Rensselaer Falls Jul 4, 2026

Hit 30 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Rensselaer Falls this day.

Largest hailstone

1.25"

≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

72

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 3rd 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.

2.8 /10
Hail size
31 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
37 /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

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 Rensselaer Falls, NY on Jul 4, 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 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 4, 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 Jul 4, 2026 sits in Rensselaer Falls's hail record

This was Rensselaer Falls's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Jul 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rensselaer Falls at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rensselaer Falls: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 43 of them in New York. Nearest: De Kalb Junction (7 miles south, up to 1.25"); Lisbon (8 miles northeast, up to 1"); Gouverneur (29 miles south, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Rensselaer Falls's Jul 4, 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1.25" hail means for Rensselaer Falls roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$864K

Potential roof exposure — 72 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 Jul 4, 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.