Hail in Birchdale Jul 30, 2026
Hit 4 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft79
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Birchdale 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
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 38 /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 Birchdale 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.
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.
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.
Where Jul 30, 2026 sits in Birchdale's hail record
This was Birchdale's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Jun 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Birchdale at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Birchdale: the same system put hail over 432 other tracked cities, 29 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Loman (0 miles north, up to 0.75"); Littlefork (15 miles south, up to 1.5"); Kelliher (44 miles southwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Birchdale's Jul 30, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Birchdale for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.75" hail means for Birchdale 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.
$948K
Potential roof exposure — 79 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Birchdale on the live map
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2 recorded storm days in Birchdale, MN
