Hail in Madison · Jul 7, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface had no signal that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 7, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Madison 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
- 25 /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 Madison saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 7, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 7, 2026 sits in Madison's hail record.
This was Madison's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the Jun 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Madison at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Madison: the same system put hail over 568 other tracked cities, 49 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Bellingham (8 miles northwest, up to 1"); Marietta (8 miles southwest, up to 1"); Labolt (16 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Madison 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Madison. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Madison roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Madison hail history
Other storms in Madison.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 5, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 4, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface May 14, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Apr 17, 2026
0.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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