Storm report · Huntingdon

Hail in Mill Creek Jul 28, 2026

Hit 6 days ago

NEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

326

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

Mill Creek's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

2.0 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
50 /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 Mill Creek saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Mill Creek, PA on Jul 28, 2026

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 0.5" Detections 1

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 28, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 28, 2026 sits in Mill Creek's hail record

This was Mill Creek's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mill Creek at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mill Creek: the same system put hail over 686 other tracked cities, 26 of them in Pennsylvania. Nearest: Mc Veytown (0 miles north, up to 0.5"); Newville (30 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Harrisonville (30 miles south, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Mill Creek's Jul 28, 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 Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek 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

$3.9M

Potential roof exposure — 326 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Close just 0.5% of the 326 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.
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 Mill Creek on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mill Creek storm history — this Jul 28, 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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Mill Creek hail history

1 recorded storm day in Mill Creek, PA

← All hail in Mill Creek
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.