/ Storm field report · Lorain

Hail in Avon Lake · Aug 22, 2026

Hit 21 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Avon Lake that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 19,870
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Avon Lake has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.9 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
86 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Avon Lake saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 22, 2026 · Avon Lake, OH

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Map image is still rendering for this surface.

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 1"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Avon Lake, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 22, 2026 sits in Avon Lake's hail record.

This was Avon Lake's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 50 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Avon Lake at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Avon Lake: the same system put hail over 501 other tracked cities, 57 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Brookpark (12 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Amherst (12 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Cleveland (17 miles southeast, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Avon Lake 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

1 report filed with the NWS

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.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1"
1 W Avon Lake Lorain County

“(CLE)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1" hail means for Avon Lake roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

19,870 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$238M

Potential roof exposure — 19,870 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
99 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.5M

Close just 0.5% of the 19,870 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.

Claim window

August 2028

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

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $4,173 on top of the $150 plan.

Avon Lake hail history

2 recorded storm days in Avon Lake, OH

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 23, 2026.