Wind gust 59 mph
10 WNW Rose Brown County
“(LBF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Brown
Hail in Ainsworth · Aug 17, 2026
Hit 26 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ainsworth 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 2,221
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Ainsworth has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 67 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Ainsworth saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 17, 2026 · Ainsworth, NE
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 hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Ainsworth, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Ainsworth's hail record.
This was Ainsworth's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Aug 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ainsworth at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ainsworth: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 103 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Bassett (23 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Johnstown (23 miles southwest, up to 1"); Springview (25 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Ainsworth 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 reportStorm 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 Rose — beyond Ainsworth itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Ainsworth 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.
2,221 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$27M
Potential roof exposure — 2,221 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 11 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$165K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,221 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 $466 on top of the $150 plan.
Ainsworth hail history
Other storms in Ainsworth.
9 recorded storm days in Ainsworth, NE
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
Sep 1, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
Aug 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
Jul 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
Jul 29, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
Jun 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
Jun 9, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ainsworth / NE
May 17, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 Sep 2, 2026.