Hail size 1"
Highland Lake County
“Video shared to social media shows dime to quarter size hail near Ridge Road and 5th Street in Highland. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Lake
Hail in Hammond · Jun 24, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hammond that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 102,333
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 24, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Hammond has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.6 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.6 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 100 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Hammond saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 24, 2026 · Hammond, IN
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 24, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Hammond, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 24, 2026 sits in Hammond's hail record.
This was Hammond's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 51 days after the May 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hammond at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hammond: the same system put hail over 383 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Dyer (7 miles south, up to 1.25"); Griffith (9 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Gary (10 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Hammond 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Highland — beyond Hammond itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Hammond 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.
102,333 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.2B
Potential roof exposure — 102,333 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 512 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$7.7M
Close just 0.5% of the 102,333 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
June 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 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 $21,490 on top of the $150 plan.
Hammond hail history
Other storms in Hammond.
5 recorded storm days in Hammond, IN
Estimated-size surface Storm date Hammond / IN
Jul 27, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Hammond / IN
Jul 20, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Hammond / IN
May 4, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Hammond / IN
Mar 26, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.