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Hail in Shermans Dale Jul 5, 2026

Hit 29 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 23 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

2,238

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

Shermans Dale'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.

5.1 /10
Hail size
56 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
67 /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 Shermans Dale 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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Shermans Dale, PA on Jul 5, 2026

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 2.25" Detections 23
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Shermans Dale, PA on Jul 5, 2026

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 1"
The storm in context

Where Jul 5, 2026 sits in Shermans Dale's hail record

This was Shermans Dale'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 Shermans Dale at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Shermans Dale: the same system put hail over 971 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Pennsylvania. Nearest: Marysville (5 miles east, up to 2.25"); New Bloomfield (7 miles north, up to 2.25"); Carlisle (9 miles southeast, up to 2.25").

These maps are stills from Shermans Dale's Jul 5, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Shermans Dale. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Shermans Dale roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$27M

Potential roof exposure — 2,238 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
11 jobs
Illustrative work
~$165K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,238 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.

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Shermans Dale hail history

1 recorded storm day in Shermans Dale, 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 surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.