Storm Location
Grafton, Clarence Valley, New South Wales
Storm Date
Grafton Hail: 7 cm Radar Band Across the Clarence Valley
Radar put a 7 cm hail band over Grafton and the Clarence Valley on the evening of 2 November 2026. Two separate radars agree on Rappville, which is the strongest corroboration of any cluster from that night. No ground reports have been published yet.
Key points
Radar put a 7 cm band over 15 Clarence Valley suburbs on 2 November, including Grafton itself.
Rappville is corroborated at 7 cm by two separate radars — the strongest reading of the night.
No ground reports are published; the Bureau's Grafton station recorded only a 30 km/h gust.
Which Clarence Valley suburbs were under the band
Fifteen suburbs sit in the top band: Grafton itself, Rappville, Seelands, Rushforth, Clearfield, Carrs Peninsula, Chambigne, Fine Flower, Heifer Station, Myrtle Creek, Six Mile Swamp, Waterview Heights, Wyan, Barretts Creek and Blaxlands Creek. Coombell and Leeville read 6 cm, Busbys Flat 5 cm, and South Grafton 3 cm. Twenty-five suburbs appear in the swathe in total (HailTracker, Nov 26).
What the Bureau's Grafton station recorded
Very little. The Grafton station logged a 30 km/h southerly gust at 10:04 am on 2 November and no rainfall total for the day (BOM, Nov 26). Radar covers ground no weather station sits on. Most top-band suburbs here are rural — Fine Flower, Wyan, Chambigne — where a severe cell can pass with no instrument under it.
Grafton, Rappville, Seelands, Rushforth and surrounding Clarence Valley localities
The same area is under warning again
On 3 November the Bureau issued a further severe thunderstorm warning for the Northern Rivers. It named Grafton, Rappville, Whiporie, Coraki and Woodburn, listing large and possibly giant hailstones (BOM, Nov 26). A Clarence Valley roof may have taken hail on both days. Damage from the first night is easy to miss under a second storm.
Not sure what your roof copped?
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References
HailTracker Summer Hail (Witt 1998) swathe archive — Read source
Bureau of Meteorology — Grafton daily weather observations, November 2026 — Read source
Bureau of Meteorology — Severe Thunderstorm Warning, 3 November 2026 — Read source
Rebuild Relief — Grafton winter wonderland, August 2025 — Read source
Rebuild Relief — Grafton December 2017 hail storm — Read source
Rebuild Relief — Grafton Clarence Valley record hail, January 2025 — Read source
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