Hail size 1.75"
Hobson Judith Basin County
“Social media report with photo showing hail approximately golf ball sized near Hobson. Time and location is estimated. (TFX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Hobson Jul 14, 2026
Hit 20 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hobson this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
764
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Hobson 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.
6.4 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 58 /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 Hobson 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
3"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Hobson, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 14, 2026 sits in Hobson's hail record
This was Hobson's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hobson at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hobson: the same system put hail over 130 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Montana. Nearest: Buffalo (8 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Moore (17 miles east, up to 2.5"); Stanford (17 miles west, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Hobson'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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 2.5"
1 N Hobson Judith Basin County
“Social media report of tennis ball sized hail near Hobson. Time and location is estimated. (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 10 minutes, from to .
What 3" hail means for Hobson 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
$9.2M
Potential roof exposure — 764 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K
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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Hobson hail history
← All hail in Hobson 7 recorded storm days in Hobson, MT
Other storms in Hobson
Jul 16, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
2
ground reports 
Jul 5, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 1, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 28, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 26, 2026
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.