Hail in Sanborn · Jul 27, 2026
Convective day · Jul 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Sanborn has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Sanborn saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
The storm in context
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Sanborn's hail record.
This was Sanborn's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sanborn at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sanborn: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 37 of them in New York. Nearest: Ransomville (0 miles north, up to 0"); Youngstown (5 miles west, up to 1"); Stella Niagara (5 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Sanborn storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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 Sanborn, 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" hail means for Sanborn roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Sanborn hail history
Other storms in Sanborn.
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