Hail size 1"
1 NE Westerville Delaware County
“hail lasted about 2-3 minutes. (ILN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Delaware
Hail in Galena · Mar 22, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Mar 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Galena has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Galena saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 22, 2026 · Galena, OH
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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"
The storm in context
Where Mar 22, 2026 sits in Galena's hail record.
This was Galena's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Galena at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Galena: the same system put hail over 409 other tracked cities, 158 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Sunbury (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Lewis Center (5 miles west, up to 1"); Westerville (7 miles south, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Galena 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
2 reports 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
2 reports Hail size 1.4"
Westerville Franklin County
“(ILN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 147 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Westerville — beyond Galena itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Galena 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
Galena hail history
Other storms in Galena.
4 recorded storm days in Galena, OH
Estimated-size surface Storm date Galena / OH
Aug 8, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Galena / OH
Jul 21, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Galena / OH
Jun 6, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1.5"
1 ground report Open report →
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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 9, 2026.