Hail size 1.75"
8 E Webster Fallon County
“(BYZ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Baker Jun 27, 2026
Hit 37 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Baker this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
550
Ground reports
5
2 hail · 3 windThe most severe storm Baker 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.
4.9 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 55 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Baker 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.
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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Baker, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 27, 2026 sits in Baker's hail record
This was Baker's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Baker at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Baker: the same system put hail over 587 other tracked cities, 49 of them in Montana. Nearest: Plevna (22 miles southwest, up to 1"); Golva (22 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Rhame (30 miles southeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Baker's Jun 27, 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
2 reports Hail size 1"
8 S Ollie Fallon County
“(BYZ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
3 reports Wind gust 58 mph
4 NE Medicine Rocks Sta Fallon County
“Mesonet station MTEKA Baker Mt-7 Mp 14.2. (BYZ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 78 mph
7 W Carlyle Wibaux County
“Mesonet observation. (GGW)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 70 mph
1 SE Baker Fallon County
“ASOS station KBHK Baker. (BYZ)”
— 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
The storm tracked north at roughly 55 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 47 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Webster, Ollie, Medicine Rocks Sta, and Carlyle — beyond Baker itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Baker roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$6.6M
Potential roof exposure — 550 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Baker on the live map
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Baker hail history
← All hail in Baker 3 recorded storm days in Baker, MT
Other storms in Baker
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.