Hail size 1.5"
2 SSW Martinsburg Berkeley County
“(LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Berkeley
Hail in Martinsburg · Aug 27, 2026
Hit 16 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Martinsburg that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 13,452
Ground reports 3 3 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Martinsburg's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.7 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.7 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 83 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Martinsburg saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 27, 2026 · Martinsburg, WV
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Martinsburg, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 27, 2026 sits in Martinsburg's hail record.
This was Martinsburg'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 Martinsburg at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Martinsburg: the same system put hail over 365 other tracked cities, 18 of them in West Virginia. Nearest: Gerrardstown (6 miles southwest, up to 1"); Shenandoah Junction (11 miles east, up to 0.5"); Williamsport (15 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Martinsburg storm date 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
3 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.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1"
Martinsburg Berkeley County
“(LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Martinsburg Berkeley County
“Half dollar size hail on Tennessee Ave (LWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 22 minutes, from to .
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Martinsburg 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.
13,452 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$161M
Potential roof exposure — 13,452 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 67 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1M
Close just 0.5% of the 13,452 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
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $2,825 on top of the $150 plan.
Martinsburg hail history
Martinsburg's hail record.
1 recorded storm day in Martinsburg, WV
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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 28, 2026.