Hail in Hill City · Jul 28, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hill City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th 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.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
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.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
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 4th of the 4 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 (195 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Canby (215 miles southwest, up to 1"); Ivanhoe (220 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Hill City storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Hill City roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Hill City hail history
Other storms in Hill City.
Estimated-size surface Sep 3, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 29, 2026
1.25"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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