“Reports of hail up to the size of golf balls in the Journeys End Neighborhood. Reports via Facebook. (PIH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Shelley · Sep 17, 2026
Convective day · Sep 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Shelley's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 74 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Shelley saw the hail — from two instruments
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 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Shelley, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 17, 2026 sits in Shelley's hail record.
This was Shelley'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 Shelley at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Shelley: the same system put hail over 75 other tracked cities, 21 of them in Idaho. Nearest: Firth (7 miles south, up to 1.5"); Idaho Falls (14 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Blackfoot (21 miles west, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Shelley 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
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
2 reports“Reported in the Shelley area. Relayed by KIFI. (PIH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 60 minutes, from to .
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Shelley 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.
Potential roof exposure
$57M
Potential roof exposure — 4,762 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 24 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$360K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,762 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $1,000 on top of the $150 plan.
Shelley hail history
Shelley's hail record.
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