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— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Buffalo · Jun 21, 2026
Convective day · Jun 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Buffalo 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
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 66 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Buffalo saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Buffalo, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Buffalo's hail record.
This was Buffalo's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Buffalo at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Buffalo: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 154 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Rosston (15 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); May (18 miles south, up to 0.75"); Gate (20 miles west, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Buffalo 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.
Wind reports
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— NOAA / SPC storm report
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— NOAA / SPC storm report
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— NOAA / SPC storm report
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Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 20 minutes, from to .
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Buffalo roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$24M
Potential roof exposure — 1,987 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 10 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$150K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,987 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
June 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 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 $417 on top of the $150 plan.
Buffalo hail history
Other storms in Buffalo.
Estimated-size surface Sep 12, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 26, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 16, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 12, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 3, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 9, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 3, 2026
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