Hail size 1"
Clear Lake Ogemaw County
“Time estimated by radar. (APX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in West Branch Jun 16, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over West Branch this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
288
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm West Branch 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.
2.6 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 West Branch 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over West Branch, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 16, 2026 sits in West Branch's hail record
This was West Branch's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 78 days after the Mar 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over West Branch at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than West Branch: the same system put hail over 225 other tracked cities, 58 of them in Michigan. Nearest: Rose City (8 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Mio (19 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Lewiston (24 miles north, up to 1").
These maps are stills from West Branch's Jun 16, 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.
Hail reports
1 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 Clear Lake — beyond West Branch itself.
What 0.75" hail means for West Branch roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$3.5M
Potential roof exposure — 288 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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.
Track hail over West Branch on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full West Branch storm history — this Jun 16, 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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West Branch hail history
← All hail in West Branch 2 recorded storm days in West Branch, MI
Other storms in West Branch
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 2, 2026.