Hail in Alden Jun 29, 2026
Hit 35 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature1,100
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Alden has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Alden saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Where Jun 29, 2026 sits in Alden's hail record
This was Alden's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 20 days after the Jun 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Alden at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Alden: the same system put hail over 702 other tracked cities, 240 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Wells (13 miles west, up to 2.5"); Ellendale (16 miles northeast, up to 1"); Bricelyn (17 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Alden's Jun 29, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Alden. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 2.5" hail means for Alden roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,100 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Alden on the live map
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10 recorded storm days in Alden, MN
Other storms in Alden
Jul 8, 2026
1.5"
Jul 2, 2026
1.25"
Jul 1, 2026
1.5"
Jun 30, 2026
3"
Jun 9, 2026
0.5"
May 26, 2026
1"
Apr 23, 2026
1"
Apr 13, 2026
1"
Apr 11, 2026
1"