Hail in Mountain Iron Jul 29, 2026
Hit 5 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mountain Iron this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 4th most severe storm Mountain Iron 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 Mountain Iron 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 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mountain Iron, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 29, 2026 sits in Mountain Iron's hail record
This was Mountain Iron's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Jul 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mountain Iron at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mountain Iron: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Britt (7 miles north, up to 0.5"); Forbes (17 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Tower (21 miles north, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Mountain Iron's Jul 29, 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 Mountain Iron 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 Mountain Iron 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 Mountain Iron on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mountain Iron storm history — this Jul 29, 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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4 recorded storm days in Mountain Iron, MN
