Wind gust 70 mph
Central City Merrick County
“Both a trained spotter and a storm chaser reported 60-70 MPH winds and pea sized hail in Central City. (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Merrick
Hail in Central City · Aug 19, 2026
Hit 24 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Central City 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 2,919
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Central City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 69 /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 Central City saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 19, 2026 · Central City, NE
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Central City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 19, 2026 sits in Central City's hail record.
This was Central City's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Aug 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Central City at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Central City: the same system put hail over 496 other tracked cities, 90 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Archer (6 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Hordville (6 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Hampton (12 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Central City 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 reportDamage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Central City 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.
2,919 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$35M
Potential roof exposure — 2,919 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 15 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$225K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,919 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 $613 on top of the $150 plan.
Central City hail history
Other storms in Central City.
9 recorded storm days in Central City, NE
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
Aug 17, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
Aug 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
Jul 8, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
Jul 1, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
Jun 12, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
Jun 5, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
May 17, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 3"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Central City / NE
May 16, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report 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 Aug 20, 2026.