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Hail in Goose Creek · Jul 7, 2026

NEXRAD logged 30 hail signatures up to 1.25"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 3,025
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jul 7, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Goose Creek has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.6 / 10
Storm severity score

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

3.6 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
70 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Goose Creek saw the hail — from two instruments

Jul 7, 2026 · Goose Creek, SC

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Goose Creek, SC on Jul 7, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 1.25" Detections 30
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Goose Creek, SC on Jul 7, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.75"

The storm in context

Where Jul 7, 2026 sits in Goose Creek's hail record.

This was Goose Creek's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 114 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Goose Creek at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Goose Creek: the same system put hail over 568 other tracked cities, 8 of them in South Carolina. Nearest: Huger (12 miles east, up to 1.25"); Georgetown (51 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Pawleys Island (54 miles northeast, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Goose Creek 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

No reports 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Goose Creek. 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Goose Creek roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

3,025 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$36M

Potential roof exposure — 3,025 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
15 jobs
Illustrative work
~$225K

Close just 0.5% of the 3,025 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 $635 on top of the $150 plan.

Goose Creek hail history

4 recorded storm days in Goose Creek, SC

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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 23, 2026.