Storm report · Seward

Hail in Bee Jul 20, 2026

Hit 14 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bee this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

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

95

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Bee 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.

2.1 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
40 /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 Bee saw the hail — from two instruments

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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bee, NE on Jul 20, 2026

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 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bee, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 20, 2026 sits in Bee's hail record

This was Bee's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 40 days after the Jun 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bee at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bee: the same system put hail over 553 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Albion (66 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Norfolk (73 miles north, up to 0.75"); Oakland (91 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Bee's Jul 20, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Bee. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Bee roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.1M

Potential roof exposure — 95 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 Bee on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Bee storm history — this Jul 20, 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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Bee hail history

7 recorded storm days in Bee, NE

← All hail in Bee

Other storms in Bee

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.