Hail in Minneapolis Apr 17, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 2 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature3,288
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Minneapolis 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /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 Minneapolis 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 17, 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 17, 2026 sits in Minneapolis's hail record
This was Minneapolis's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Minneapolis at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Minneapolis: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 81 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Eden Prairie (5 miles west, up to 1"); Inver Grove Heights (10 miles east, up to 0.75"); Jordan (16 miles southwest, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Minneapolis's Apr 17, 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.
For this storm over Minneapolis, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 1" hail means for Minneapolis roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
$39M
Potential roof exposure — 3,288 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Minneapolis on the live map
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