Hail in Bird Island Jul 4, 2026
Hit 30 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 2 hail signatures up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft70
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Bird Island 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
- 37 /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 Bird Island saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Bird Island's hail record
This was Bird Island's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jun 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bird Island at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bird Island: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 128 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Olivia (8 miles northwest, up to 0"); Hector (10 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Danube (10 miles west, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Bird Island's Jul 4, 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 Bird Island 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 Bird Island 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.
$840K
Potential roof exposure — 70 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Bird Island on the live map
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4 recorded storm days in Bird Island, MN
