Hail size 1.5"
Heart Butte Dam Grant County
“Photo of hail in the palm of a hand. (BIS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Elgin Jul 19, 2026
Hit 15 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Elgin this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
399
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 3rd most severe storm Elgin 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.
3.8 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 52 /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 Elgin 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 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Elgin, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 19, 2026 sits in Elgin's hail record
This was Elgin's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Jul 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Elgin at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Elgin: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 44 of them in North Dakota. Nearest: New Leipzig (5 miles west, up to 1.25"); Carson (5 miles east, up to 1"); Glen Ullin (31 miles north, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Elgin's Jul 19, 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 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Heart Butte Dam — beyond Elgin itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Elgin 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
$4.8M
Potential roof exposure — 399 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
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 Elgin on the live map
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Elgin hail history
← All hail in Elgin 6 recorded storm days in Elgin, ND
Other storms in Elgin
Jul 29, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 27, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 21, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
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.