Wind gust 60 mph
4 SSE South Haven Van Buren County
“Corrects previous non-tstm wnd gst report from 4 SSE South Haven. AWOS station KLWA South Haven Rgnl Arpt. (GRR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Covert Jul 3, 2026
Hit 31 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
2
2 windThe most severe storm Covert 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.
2.0 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Covert saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 3, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in Covert's hail record
This was Covert's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Covert at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Covert: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 63 of them in Michigan. Nearest: Bangor (8 miles east, up to 1"); Coloma (9 miles southwest, up to 1"); Dowagiac (27 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Covert's Jul 3, 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 60 mph
4 SSE South Haven Van Buren County
“AWOS station KLWA South Haven Rgnl Arpt. (GRR)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 60 minutes, from to .
Reports came from South Haven — beyond Covert itself.
What 1" hail means for Covert roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
Track hail over Covert on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Covert storm history — this Jul 3, 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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Covert hail history
← All hail in Covert 3 recorded storm days in Covert, MI
Other storms in Covert
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.