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Hail in Hettinger · Aug 17, 2026

Hit 26 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hettinger that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 198

Ground reports 1 1 wind

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Hettinger has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.3 / 10

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.3 /10

Peak hail signal: 31 /100
Homes exposed: 46 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Hettinger saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 17, 2026 · Hettinger, ND

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hettinger, ND on Aug 17, 2026 — Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Hettinger, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Hettinger's hail record.

This was Hettinger's 13th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Aug 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hettinger at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hettinger: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 11 of them in North Dakota. Nearest: Lemmon (19 miles east, up to 1.75"); Reeder (24 miles west, up to 0.75"); Mott (30 miles northeast, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Hettinger storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

1 report filed with the NWS

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 60 mph

6 ENE Lodgepole Perkins County

10:02 PM UTC

“(UNR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports

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

Reports came from Lodgepole — beyond Hettinger itself.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Hettinger roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

198 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$2.4M

Potential roof exposure — 198 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 1 job
Illustrative work: ~$15K

Close just 0.5% of the 198 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.

Claim window

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $42 on top of the $150 plan.

Hettinger hail history

14 recorded storm days in Hettinger, ND

← All hail in Hettinger

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hettinger, ND on Aug 30, 2026

Estimated-size surface

Storm date Hettinger / ND

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.

The 4th most severe storm Hettinger has seen in the last 12 months

How Hettinger saw the hail — from two instruments

Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Hettinger's hail record.

What people on the ground reported

Wind reports

How the storm moved

What 1.25" hail means for Hettinger roofs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

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