Tornado Rating unknown
3 N Philippi Barbour County
“EF0 tornado tracked 0.3 miles along railroad tracks south of Taylors Drain Rd. (RLX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Philippi Jul 21, 2026
Hit 13 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 6 hail signatures up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
273
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe most severe storm Philippi has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.8 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Philippi 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
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
0.75"
Detections
6
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 Philippi's hail record
This was Philippi's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Philippi at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Philippi: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 53 of them in West Virginia. Nearest: Moatsville (5 miles east, up to 0.75"); Flemington (6 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Belington (9 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Philippi'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.
Tornado reports
1 reportWhat 0.75" hail means for Philippi roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$3.3M
Potential roof exposure — 273 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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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Philippi hail history
← All hail in Philippi 2 recorded storm days in Philippi, WV
Other storms in Philippi
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.