Tornado Rating unknown
2 NE Punxsutawney Jefferson County
“Damage from a EF0 tornado was found within a BMX track north of Punxsutawney. (PBZ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Jefferson
Hail in Punxsutawney · Jul 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Punxsutawney that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 357
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jul 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Punxsutawney has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.5 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.5 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 51 /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 Punxsutawney saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 18, 2026 · Punxsutawney, PA
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Punxsutawney, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in Punxsutawney's hail record.
This was Punxsutawney's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Punxsutawney at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Punxsutawney: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 27 of them in Pennsylvania. Nearest: Brookville (7 miles north, up to 0.75"); Fairmount City (15 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Reynoldsville (16 miles northeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Punxsutawney 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
1 report 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportBelow the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Punxsutawney roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
357 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$4.3M
Potential roof exposure — 357 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 357 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
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $75 on top of the $150 plan.
Punxsutawney hail history
Other storms in Punxsutawney.
2 recorded storm days in Punxsutawney, PA
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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 3, 2026.