Storm report · Ulster

Hail in Sundown Jul 18, 2026

Hit 16 days ago

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

Largest hailstone

0.5"

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

70

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Sundown 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.

1.7 /10
Hail size
13 /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 Sundown 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 Sundown, NY on Jul 18, 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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Sundown, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in Sundown's hail record

This was Sundown's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sundown at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sundown: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 45 of them in New York. Nearest: Grahamsville (3 miles west, up to 0.5"); Long Eddy (36 miles west, up to 0.5"); Hancock (44 miles west, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Sundown's Jul 18, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Sundown for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Sundown 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

$840K

Potential roof exposure — 70 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 Sundown on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Sundown storm history — this Jul 18, 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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Sundown hail history

2 recorded storm days in Sundown, NY

← All hail in Sundown

Other storms in Sundown

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 1, 2026.