Hail in Reader Jul 21, 2026
Hit 13 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 5 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature210
0
none filedThe most severe storm Reader has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Reader 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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
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.
Where Jul 21, 2026 sits in Reader's hail record
This was Reader's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Reader at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Reader: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 53 of them in West Virginia. Nearest: Middlebourne (5 miles west, up to 2.75"); Jacksonburg (5 miles east, up to 1"); Pine Grove (9 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Reader'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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Reader. 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.
What 2.5" hail means for Reader 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.
$2.5M
Potential roof exposure — 210 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Reader on the live map
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4 recorded storm days in Reader, WV
