Hail in Wolf Creek Jul 16, 2026
Hit 18 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wolf Creek this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.75"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft58
0
none filedThe most severe storm Wolf Creek has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 35 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Wolf Creek saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wolf Creek, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in Wolf Creek's hail record
This was Wolf Creek's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jul 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wolf Creek at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wolf Creek: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 40 of them in Montana. Nearest: Cascade (21 miles east, up to 2"); Augusta (28 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Clancy (48 miles south, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Wolf Creek'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.
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Wolf Creek. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 2.75" hail means for Wolf Creek roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$696K
Potential roof exposure — 58 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Wolf Creek on the live map
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6 recorded storm days in Wolf Creek, MT
Other storms in Wolf Creek
Jul 18, 2026
0.5"
Jul 8, 2026
0.75"
Jul 1, 2026
1.5"
Jun 25, 2026
1"
May 29, 2026
1.25"