Wind gust 59 mph
4 N Beverly Shores LMZ745 County
“Gust to 51 knots at the Michigan City Buoy. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · LaPorte
Hail in Michigan City · Jul 27, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Michigan City 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 13,944
Ground reports 2 2 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jul 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Michigan City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 83 /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 Michigan City saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 27, 2026 · Michigan City, 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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Michigan City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Michigan City's hail record.
This was Michigan City's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 105 days after the Apr 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Michigan City at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Michigan City: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Long Beach (9 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Westville (9 miles southwest, up to 1"); Beverly Shores (10 miles west, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Michigan City 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
2 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
2 reports 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 Michigan City itself.
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Michigan City 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.
13,944 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$167M
Potential roof exposure — 13,944 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 70 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 13,944 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 $2,928 on top of the $150 plan.
Michigan City hail history
Other storms in Michigan City.
4 recorded storm days in Michigan City, IN
Estimated-size surface Storm date Michigan City / IN
Aug 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Michigan City / IN
Aug 9, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
3 ground reports Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Michigan City / IN
Apr 13, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
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 11, 2026.