Wind gust 66 mph
7 WSW Crow Rock Garfield County
“Rock Springs North montana mesonet station. (GGW)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Prairie
Hail in Miles City · Aug 17, 2026
Hit 26 days ago
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 257
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Aug 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Miles City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 48 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Miles City saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 17, 2026 · Miles City, MT
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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"
The storm in context
Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Miles City's hail record.
This was Miles City's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Miles City at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Miles City: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 13 of them in Montana. Nearest: Kinsey (7 miles north, up to 0.75"); Hysham (79 miles west, up to 0.5"); Jordan (82 miles northwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Miles City storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
1 report filed with the NWS
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
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Crow Rock — beyond Miles City itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Miles City roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
257 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$3.1M
Potential roof exposure — 257 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 257 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $54 on top of the $150 plan.
Miles City hail history
Other storms in Miles City.
8 recorded storm days in Miles City, MT
Map unavailable
NEXRAD surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Sep 2, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Aug 18, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Jul 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Jul 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Jun 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Miles City / MT
Jun 1, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 3, 2026.