Hail in American Falls · May 26, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over American Falls that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm American Falls has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 American Falls saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over American Falls, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 26, 2026 sits in American Falls's hail record.
This was American Falls's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over American Falls at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than American Falls: the same system put hail over 259 other tracked cities, 2 of them in Idaho. Nearest: Gooding (89 miles west, up to 1"); Tetonia (111 miles northeast, up to 1"); Bozeman (209 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 American Falls 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
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over American Falls for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for American Falls roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
American Falls hail history
Other storms in American Falls.
Estimated-size surface Sep 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 24, 2026
1"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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