Hail in Pierz Jun 29, 2026
Hit 35 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft67
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Pierz 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
- 37 /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 Pierz saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Where Jun 29, 2026 sits in Pierz's hail record
This was Pierz's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Jun 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pierz at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pierz: the same system put hail over 702 other tracked cities, 240 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Hillman (7 miles east, up to 0.5"); Brainerd (11 miles north, up to 2.25"); Fort Ripley (14 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Pierz's Jun 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.
For this storm over Pierz, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 0.5" hail means for Pierz 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.
$804K
Potential roof exposure — 67 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Pierz on the live map
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6 recorded storm days in Pierz, MN
Other storms in Pierz
Jul 7, 2026
0.75"
Jul 6, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Jun 19, 2026
1.5"
Jun 9, 2026
0.75"