Storm report · Judith Basin

Hail in Stanford Jun 12, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Stanford this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

88

Ground reports

1

1 wind
Severity

The 7th most severe storm Stanford 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.

2.0 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
39 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Stanford saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Stanford, MT on Jun 12, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 12, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Stanford, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 12, 2026 sits in Stanford's hail record

This was Stanford's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the May 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Stanford at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Stanford: the same system put hail over 293 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Montana. Nearest: Big Sandy (75 miles north, up to 0.75"); Loma (76 miles north, up to 0.75"); Fort Shaw (83 miles northwest, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Stanford's Jun 12, 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.

Ground reports

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

1 report
Wind gust 63 mph
2 NW Windham Judith Basin County

“AWOS station K1CM Charlie. 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust. (TFX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from Windham — beyond Stanford itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Stanford roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.1M

Potential roof exposure — 88 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Stanford on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Stanford storm history — this Jun 12, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Stanford hail history

8 recorded storm days in Stanford, MT

← All hail in Stanford

Other storms in Stanford

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.