Tornado Rating unknown
3 WNW Westbury Becker County
“Power poles knocked over with power flashes. (FGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Detroit Lakes Jul 6, 2026
Hit 28 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
16,999
Ground reports
5
1 wind · 4 tornadoThe most severe storm Detroit Lakes 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.
7.4 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 85 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Detroit Lakes 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
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.
Max size
2.5"
Detections
0
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
2"
Where Jul 6, 2026 sits in Detroit Lakes's hail record
This was Detroit Lakes's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jun 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Detroit Lakes at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Detroit Lakes: the same system put hail over 832 other tracked cities, 169 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Audubon (6 miles northwest, up to 2.5"); Callaway (14 miles north, up to 2.5"); Lake Park (14 miles northwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Detroit Lakes's Jul 6, 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.
Tornado reports
4 reports Tornado Rating unknown
3.5 NW Detroit Lakes Becker County
“Roof off building. (FGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Tornado Rating unknown
4 NW Detroit Lakes Becker County
“Snapped trees. Roof off building. MNDOT reports debris on roadway. (FGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Tornado Rating unknown
3 S Westbury Becker County
“*** 2 INJ *** Updates previous tornado report from 3 S Westbury. Roof blown off small building. MNDOT also reports debris on roadway. 2 injuries reported via broadcast (FGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 64 mph
2 N Detroit Lakes Becker County
“RAWS Station reports wind gust. (FGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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
Hail was reported over 13 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Westbury — beyond Detroit Lakes itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Detroit Lakes 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$204M
Potential roof exposure — 16,999 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
85 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.3M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Detroit Lakes on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Detroit Lakes storm history — this Jul 6, 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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Detroit Lakes hail history
← All hail in Detroit Lakes 3 recorded storm days in Detroit Lakes, MN
Other storms in Detroit Lakes
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 3, 2026.