Hail in Fifty Lakes Apr 23, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 3 hail signatures up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature52
0
none filedFifty Lakes's only recorded storm 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
- 34 /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 Fifty Lakes 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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 23, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Fifty Lakes's hail record
This was Fifty Lakes's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fifty Lakes at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fifty Lakes: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 58 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Brainerd (38 miles south, up to 0.75"); Fort Ripley (43 miles south, up to 0.75"); Deer River (49 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Fifty Lakes's Apr 23, 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 Fifty Lakes 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 Fifty Lakes 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.
$624K
Potential roof exposure — 52 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Fifty Lakes on the live map
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1 recorded storm day in Fifty Lakes, MN