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
Hail in Saint James 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" aloft.
Largest hailstone
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 5th most severe storm Saint James 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.
0.2 /10
- Hail size
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Saint James 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
0"
Detections
0
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
0"
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 5th of the 6 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 (16 miles southwest, up to 1"); Bingham Lake (20 miles southwest, up to 1"); Windom (26 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Saint James'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.
Wind 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 St. James — beyond Saint James itself.
What 0" hail means for Saint James 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.
Track hail over Saint James on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Saint James storm history — this Jun 29, 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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Saint James hail history
← All hail in Saint James 6 recorded storm days in Saint James, MN
Other storms in Saint James
Jul 25, 2026
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 17, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 23, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 13, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
7
ground reports
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.