Hail size 1"
Wabasha Wabasha County
“(ARX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Reads Landing Apr 13, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 21 hail signatures up to 2.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.75"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
954
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Reads Landing 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.
5.9 /10
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Reads Landing 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
2.75"
Detections
21
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
2"
Where Apr 13, 2026 sits in Reads Landing's hail record
This was Reads Landing's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Reads Landing at 2.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Reads Landing: the same system put hail over 467 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Pepin (7 miles north, up to 2.5"); Kellogg (7 miles south, up to 2.75"); Lake City (10 miles west, up to 4").
These maps are stills from Reads Landing's Apr 13, 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.
Hail reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Wabasha — beyond Reads Landing itself.
What 2.75" hail means for Reads Landing roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$11M
Potential roof exposure — 954 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Reads Landing hail history
← All hail in Reads Landing 2 recorded storm days in Reads Landing, MN
Other storms in Reads Landing
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 2, 2026.