Hail in Mountain Lake · Jun 27, 2026
Convective day · Jun 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 13th most severe storm Mountain Lake 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
- 43 /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 Mountain Lake 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 signature field 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.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Jun 27, 2026 sits in Mountain Lake's hail record.
This was Mountain Lake's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Jun 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mountain Lake at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mountain Lake: the same system put hail over 587 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Windom (5 miles west, up to 0.5"); Butterfield (12 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Lamberton (20 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Mountain Lake 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 Mountain Lake 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 Mountain Lake 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$1.7M
Potential roof exposure — 139 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 139 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.
Claim window
June 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $29 on top of the $150 plan.
Mountain Lake hail history
Other storms in Mountain Lake.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 25, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jun 29, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 25, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface May 18, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 23, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 13, 2026
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