Hail size 1"
6 WNW Ledger Pondera County
“Picture via soical media. Time estimated by radar... and location is estimated from report. (TFX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Conrad Jul 18, 2026
Hit 16 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Conrad this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
289
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Conrad 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.
3.0 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /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 Conrad 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"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Conrad, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in Conrad's hail record
This was Conrad's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the Jun 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Conrad at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Conrad: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 8 of them in Montana. Nearest: Chester (46 miles east, up to 1"); Joplin (52 miles east, up to 1"); Gildford (76 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Conrad's Jul 18, 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 Ledger — beyond Conrad itself.
What 1" hail means for Conrad roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$3.5M
Potential roof exposure — 289 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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 Conrad on the live map
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Conrad hail history
← All hail in Conrad 2 recorded storm days in Conrad, MT
Other storms in Conrad
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.