Storm report · Ransom

Hail in Kathryn Jul 24, 2026

Hit 10 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 4th most severe storm Kathryn 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.

0.8 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /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 Kathryn 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Kathryn, ND on Jul 24, 2026

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Kathryn, ND on Jul 24, 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 0.5"
The storm in context

Where Jul 24, 2026 sits in Kathryn's hail record

This was Kathryn's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Jul 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kathryn at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kathryn: the same system put hail over 221 other tracked cities, 69 of them in North Dakota. Nearest: Litchville (10 miles west, up to 1"); Verona (13 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Marion (22 miles west, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Kathryn's Jul 24, 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.

For this storm over Kathryn, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Kathryn roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

Track hail over Kathryn on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Kathryn storm history — this Jul 24, 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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Kathryn hail history

4 recorded storm days in Kathryn, ND

← All hail in Kathryn

Other storms in Kathryn

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.