Wind gust 86 mph
12 SSE Forestgrove Fergus County
“N Bar Ranch AWOS reported an 86 mph gust. Sustained winds of 45 mph at time of report. (TFX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Forest Grove Jul 14, 2026
Hit 20 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Forest Grove this day.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
270
Ground reports
2
2 windThe most severe storm Forest Grove 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.
4.3 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Forest Grove saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Forest Grove, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 14, 2026 sits in Forest Grove's hail record
This was Forest Grove's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Forest Grove at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Forest Grove: the same system put hail over 130 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Montana. Nearest: Grass Range (18 miles northeast, up to 1.5"); Lewistown (22 miles west, up to 2.5"); Moore (33 miles west, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Forest Grove's Jul 14, 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
2 reports Wind gust 67 mph
2 NW Grass Range Fergus County
“Ambient Weather Station just west of Grass Range reported a 67 mph wind gust. (TFX)”
— 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 15 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Forestgrove and Grass Range — beyond Forest Grove itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Forest Grove 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
$3.2M
Potential roof exposure — 270 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.
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Forest Grove hail history
← All hail in Forest Grove 3 recorded storm days in Forest Grove, MT
Other storms in Forest Grove
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.