Hail size 1.25"
Gothenburg Dawson County
“Report received via Facebook. (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Cozad Jun 24, 2026
Hit 40 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Cozad this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
6,851
Ground reports
3
1 hail · 2 windThe 3rd most severe storm Cozad 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.
4.9 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Cozad 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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 24, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Cozad, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 24, 2026 sits in Cozad's hail record
This was Cozad's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Jun 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Cozad at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Cozad: the same system put hail over 383 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Gothenburg (16 miles west, up to 1.25"); Elwood (21 miles south, up to 1.75"); Eustis (22 miles south, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Cozad's Jun 24, 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 reportWind reports
2 reports Wind gust 60 mph
Cozad Dawson County
“(GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 63 mph
3 NNE Gothenburg Dawson County
“(GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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
Hail was reported over 27 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Gothenburg — beyond Cozad itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Cozad roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$82M
Potential roof exposure — 6,851 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
34 jobs
Illustrative work
~$510K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Cozad on the live map
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Cozad hail history
← All hail in Cozad 13 recorded storm days in Cozad, NE
Other storms in Cozad
Jul 30, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 28, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 27, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 8, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Jun 12, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 16, 2026
3.75" Signatures 3.75" Estimated 2.25"
1
ground report 
Apr 11, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
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.