Wind gust 59 mph
4 N Beverly Shores LMZ745 County
“Gust to 51 knots at the Michigan City Buoy. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Michigan City Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Michigan City this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
13,944
Ground reports
2
2 windThe most severe storm Michigan City has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.8 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 83 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Michigan City saw the hail — from two instruments
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
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.
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 2 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: Beverly Shores (5 miles west, up to 1.5"); Long Beach (7 miles north, up to 1.5"); Chesterton (9 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Michigan City's Jul 27, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
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.
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
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Beverly Shores — beyond Michigan City itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Michigan City roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$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
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.
Track hail over Michigan City on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Michigan City storm history — this Jul 27, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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Michigan City hail history
← All hail in Michigan City 2 recorded storm days in Michigan City, IN
Other storms in Michigan City
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.