Hail size 1.75"
3 NNE Omemee Bottineau County
“[Delayed Report] Photo of golf ball sized hail southeast of Bottineau... found on social media. Time and location determined by radar. (BIS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Willow City Jul 14, 2026
Hit 20 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Willow City this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
122
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Willow City 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.
4.3 /10
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /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 Willow City saw the hail — from two instruments
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
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
2"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Willow City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 14, 2026 sits in Willow City's hail record
This was Willow City's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Willow City at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Willow City: the same system put hail over 130 other tracked cities, 7 of them in North Dakota. Nearest: Kramer (17 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Bottineau (28 miles north, up to 1.5"); Saint John (33 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Willow City's Jul 14, 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 Omemee — beyond Willow City itself.
What 2" hail means for Willow City 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$1.5M
Potential roof exposure — 122 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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 Willow City on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Willow City storm history — this Jul 14, 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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Willow City hail history
← All hail in Willow City 6 recorded storm days in Willow City, ND
Other storms in Willow City
Jul 2, 2026
Jun 28, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 27, 2026
Jun 9, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2" Estimated 2.5"
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.