Hail in Hill City Jul 28, 2026
Hit 6 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hill City this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Hill City 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Hill City 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Hill City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 28, 2026 sits in Hill City's hail record
This was Hill City's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 26 days after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hill City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hill City: the same system put hail over 686 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Sisseton (189 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Canby (205 miles southwest, up to 1"); Arco (214 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Hill City's Jul 28, 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 Hill City 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 0.5" hail means for Hill City roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Hill City on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Hill City storm history — this Jul 28, 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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3 recorded storm days in Hill City, MN
