Wind gust 59 mph
5 WNW Long Beach LMZ046 County
“51 kt gust recorded at the Michigan City Buoy - 45170. (IWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · La Porte
Hail in Long Beach · Jul 27, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Long Beach that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.5" ≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 485
Ground reports 3 3 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jul 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Long Beach's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.3 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.3 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 54 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Long Beach saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 27, 2026 · Long Beach, IN
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Map image is still rendering for this surface.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Long Beach, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Long Beach's hail record.
This was Long Beach'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 Long Beach at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Long Beach: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Michigan City (9 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Beverly Shores (9 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Westville (14 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Long Beach 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
3 reports 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.
Wind reports
3 reports Wind gust 59 mph
4 N Beverly Shores LMZ745 County
“Gust to 51 knots at the Michigan City Buoy. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 61 mph
4 NE Beverly Shores LMZ745 County
“Gust to 53 knots at the Michigan City GLERL Site. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm 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 Beverly Shores — beyond Long Beach itself.
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Long Beach roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
485 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$5.8M
Potential roof exposure — 485 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 2 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$30K
Close just 0.5% of the 485 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
July 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $102 on top of the $150 plan.
Long Beach hail history
Long Beach's hail record.
1 recorded storm day in Long Beach, IN
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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 1, 2026.