Wind gust 67 mph
11 S Rudyard Hill County
“CWOP sensor 11 miles S of Rudyard. Nearby sensor also measured a 63 mph gust. (TFX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Hill
Hail in Rudyard · Aug 23, 2026
Hit 20 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Rudyard that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 161
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Rudyard has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 44 /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 Rudyard saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 23, 2026 · Rudyard, MT
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 23, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Rudyard, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 23, 2026 sits in Rudyard's hail record.
This was Rudyard's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 102 days after the May 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rudyard at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rudyard: the same system put hail over 185 other tracked cities, 18 of them in Montana. Nearest: Hingham (8 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Gildford (15 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Chester (17 miles southwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Rudyard 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 reportHigh damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Rudyard roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
161 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.9M
Potential roof exposure — 161 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 161 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 $34 on top of the $150 plan.
Rudyard hail history
Other storms in Rudyard.
2 recorded storm days in Rudyard, MT
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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 Aug 24, 2026.