Wind gust 60 mph
3 E St. James Watonwan County
“St. James Municipal Airport ASOS recorded a 60 mph wind gust. (MPX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Watonwan
Hail in Saint James · Jun 29, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jun 29, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Saint James has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 0.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
0.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Saint James saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 29, 2026 · Saint James, MN
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 Surface resolved
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
0"
The storm in context
Where Jun 29, 2026 sits in Saint James's hail record.
This was Saint James's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 43 days after the May 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Saint James at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Saint James: the same system put hail over 702 other tracked cities, 240 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Mountain Lake (17 miles west, up to 1"); Bingham Lake (19 miles west, up to 1"); Windom (22 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Saint James 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Wind reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from St. James — beyond Saint James itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Saint James 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
Saint James hail history
Other storms in Saint James.
8 recorded storm days in Saint James, MN
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
Aug 8, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
Aug 7, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
Jul 25, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
May 17, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
Apr 23, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Saint James / MN
Apr 13, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
7 ground reports Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 9, 2026.