Hail in New Castle Jul 21, 2026
Hit 13 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 8 hail signatures up to 1.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature1,771
0
none filedThe most severe storm New Castle has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 65 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 New Castle saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 21, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 21, 2026 sits in New Castle's hail record
This was New Castle's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jul 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over New Castle at 1.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than New Castle: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 32 of them in Pennsylvania. Nearest: Jamestown (37 miles north, up to 1"); Oil City (48 miles northeast, up to 1.5"); Titusville (50 miles northeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from New Castle's Jul 21, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over New Castle. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 1.5" hail means for New Castle 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.
$21M
Potential roof exposure — 1,771 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over New Castle on the live map
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2 recorded storm days in New Castle, PA
