Hail in Mountain Lake Jul 6, 2026
Hit 28 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature1,666
0
none filedThe 4th 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.
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 64 /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 Lake 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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
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.
Where Jul 6, 2026 sits in Mountain Lake's hail record
This was Mountain Lake's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mountain Lake at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mountain Lake: the same system put hail over 832 other tracked cities, 169 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Bingham Lake (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Jeffers (12 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Sanborn (23 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Mountain Lake's Jul 6, 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 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.
What 1.75" hail means for Mountain Lake roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
$20M
Potential roof exposure — 1,666 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Mountain Lake on the live map
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12 recorded storm days in Mountain Lake, MN
Other storms in Mountain Lake
Jul 25, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
0.75"
Jul 2, 2026
2"
Jun 29, 2026
1"
Jun 27, 2026
0.5"
Jun 9, 2026
0.5"
May 25, 2026
1"
May 18, 2026
2.5"
May 17, 2026
2.5"
Apr 23, 2026
1"
Apr 13, 2026
1.75"