Hail size 1.5"
St. Cloud Stearns County
“(MPX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Sartell Jul 4, 2026
Hit 30 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 13 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
12,824
Ground reports
4
4 hailThe most severe storm Sartell 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.
6.1 /10
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 82 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Sartell 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
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.
Max size
2"
Detections
13
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
1"
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Sartell's hail record
This was Sartell's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 72 days after the Apr 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sartell at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sartell: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 128 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Saint Cloud (8 miles southeast, up to 1"); Freeport (24 miles west, up to 2.25"); Zimmerman (25 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Sartell's Jul 4, 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
4 reports Hail size 1"
St. Cloud Stearns County
“(MPX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 W St. Cloud Stearns County
“A lot of half inch to one inch half falling and shredding the trees. (MPX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
1 NNE St. Cloud Benton County
“First reported quarter sized hail around 4:58pm... then half dollar at 5:02pm... then ping pong at 5:04pm. (MPX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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
Hail was reported over 30 minutes, from to .
Reports came from St. Cloud — beyond Sartell itself.
What 2" hail means for Sartell 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
$154M
Potential roof exposure — 12,824 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
64 jobs
Illustrative work
~$960K
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 Sartell on the live map
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Sartell hail history
← All hail in Sartell 2 recorded storm days in Sartell, MN
Other storms in Sartell
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.