Hail size 1.25"
2 SSE Stanford Judith Basin County
“Social media report with photo of approximately half dollar sized hail near Stanford. Time and location is estimated. (TFX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Stanford Jul 14, 2026
Hit 20 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Stanford this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
82
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 4th 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.
3.5 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 38 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 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
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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Stanford, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 14, 2026 sits in Stanford's hail record
This was Stanford's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Stanford at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Stanford: the same system put hail over 130 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Montana. Nearest: Hobson (17 miles east, up to 3"); Buffalo (24 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Moore (33 miles east, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Stanford'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
1 reportWhat 1.5" hail means for Stanford 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
$984K
Potential roof exposure — 82 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage. 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.
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 Jul 14, 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
← All hail in Stanford 8 recorded storm days in Stanford, MT
Other storms in Stanford
Jul 16, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 12, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1
ground report 
May 29, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 28, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 13, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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.