Hail in Bigfork · Jun 29, 2026
Convective day · Jun 29, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Bigfork has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Bigfork 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 signature field 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.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Jun 29, 2026 sits in Bigfork's hail record.
This was Bigfork's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Jun 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bigfork at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bigfork: the same system put hail over 702 other tracked cities, 240 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Bovey (7 miles south, up to 2"); Grand Rapids (14 miles south, up to 2"); Nashwauk (19 miles southeast, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Bigfork 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
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.
For this storm over Bigfork, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Bigfork roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Bigfork hail history
Other storms in Bigfork.
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 24, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 6, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 4, 2026
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