Hail size 1"
West Newton Westmoreland County
“(PBZ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Belle Vernon May 13, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 13 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
4,646
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Belle Vernon 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.
4.7 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 73 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Belle Vernon saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
13
Radar-estimated hail size
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
0.75"
Where May 13, 2026 sits in Belle Vernon's hail record
This was Belle Vernon's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belle Vernon at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belle Vernon: the same system put hail over 122 other tracked cities, 49 of them in Pennsylvania. Nearest: Wyano (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Monongahela (5 miles west, up to 1"); Coal Center (11 miles southwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Belle Vernon's May 13, 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.
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.
Hail reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from West Newton — beyond Belle Vernon itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Belle Vernon roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$56M
Potential roof exposure — 4,646 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
23 jobs
Illustrative work
~$345K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Belle Vernon on the live map
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Belle Vernon hail history
← All hail in Belle Vernon 2 recorded storm days in Belle Vernon, PA
Other storms in Belle Vernon
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 2, 2026.