Storm report · Wheatland

Hail in Two Dot Jul 16, 2026

Hit 18 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Two Dot this day.

Largest hailstone

1.25"

≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

765

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Two Dot 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.

3.3 /10
Hail size
31 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
58 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Two Dot 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 Two Dot, MT on Jul 16, 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 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Two Dot, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in Two Dot's hail record

This was Two Dot's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Two Dot at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Two Dot: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 40 of them in Montana. Nearest: Harlowton (4 miles southeast, up to 1"); Buffalo (17 miles north, up to 2"); Judith Gap (18 miles northeast, up to 2.5").

These maps are stills from Two Dot's Jul 16, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Two Dot for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1.25" hail means for Two Dot roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$9.2M

Potential roof exposure — 765 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K
Close just 0.5% of the 765 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.
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 Two Dot on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Two Dot storm history — this Jul 16, 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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Two Dot hail history

3 recorded storm days in Two Dot, MT

← All hail in Two Dot

Other storms in Two Dot

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 1, 2026.