Storm report · Douglas

Hail in Parkers Prairie Jul 6, 2026

Hit 28 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

32

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Parkers Prairie 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
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
30 /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 Parkers Prairie saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Parkers Prairie, MN on Jul 6, 2026

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Parkers Prairie, MN on Jul 6, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.5"
The storm in context

Where Jul 6, 2026 sits in Parkers Prairie's hail record

This was Parkers Prairie's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jun 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Parkers Prairie at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Parkers Prairie: the same system put hail over 832 other tracked cities, 169 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Vining (7 miles north, up to 1"); Brandon (10 miles southwest, up to 1"); Miltona (10 miles east, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Parkers Prairie'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.

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 Parkers Prairie 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Parkers Prairie 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$384K

Potential roof exposure — 32 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 Parkers Prairie on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Parkers Prairie storm history — this Jul 6, 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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Parkers Prairie hail history

2 recorded storm days in Parkers Prairie, MN

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Other storms in Parkers Prairie

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.