Storm report · Lyon

Hail in Minneota Jul 19, 2026

Hit 15 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Minneota this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

224

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Minneota has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

2.3 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
47 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Minneota 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Minneota, MN on Jul 19, 2026

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Minneota, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 19, 2026 sits in Minneota's hail record

This was Minneota's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the Jul 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Minneota at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Minneota: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 69 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Taunton (2 miles west, up to 0.75"); Echo (28 miles east, up to 0.75"); Watson (29 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Minneota's Jul 19, 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.

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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Minneota. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Minneota 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$2.7M

Potential roof exposure — 224 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 224 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Minneota on the live map

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Minneota hail history

5 recorded storm days in Minneota, MN

← All hail in Minneota

Other storms in Minneota

A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.