Hail size 1.5"
6.5 S Bayard Morrill County
“Trained spotter reported lots of smaller hail and a few stones up to about ping pong ball sized. Hail was still falling at the time of the report. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Scotts Bluff
Hail in Bayard · Aug 16, 2026
Hit 29 days ago
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 91
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Aug 16, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Bayard has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 39 /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 Bayard saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 16, 2026 · Bayard, NE
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
0.5"
The storm in context
Where Aug 16, 2026 sits in Bayard's hail record.
This was Bayard's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Aug 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bayard at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bayard: the same system put hail over 264 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Gering (6 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Potter (17 miles south, up to 1"); Harrisburg (22 miles southwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Bayard 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.
Hail reports
1 reportBelow the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Bayard roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
91 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.1M
Potential roof exposure — 91 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 $19 on top of the $150 plan.
Bayard hail history
Other storms in Bayard.
12 recorded storm days in Bayard, NE
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Sep 2, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Aug 21, 2026
3.75" Estimated 3.75"
4 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Aug 9, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jul 28, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jul 8, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jul 7, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jun 26, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jun 22, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jun 8, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
Jun 7, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Bayard / NE
May 29, 2026
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 3, 2026.