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Hail in Crookston · Aug 17, 2026

Hit 28 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Crookston that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.5" ≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 392

Ground reports 2 2 wind

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 6th most severe storm Crookston has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 4.0 / 10

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

4.0 /10

Peak hail signal: 38 /100
Homes exposed: 52 /100
Ground truth: 33 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Crookston saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 17, 2026 · Crookston, 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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Crookston, NE on Aug 17, 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 1.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Crookston, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Crookston's hail record.

This was Crookston's 12th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Aug 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Crookston at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Crookston: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 103 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Kilgore (6 miles northwest, up to 2"); Valentine (16 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Saint Francis (19 miles northwest, up to 2").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Crookston 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

2 reports 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

2 reports

Wind gust 64 mph

5 E Kilgore Cherry County

2:06 AM UTC

“(LBF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 70 mph

5 E Kilgore Cherry County

2:07 AM UTC

“(LBF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm 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 Kilgore — beyond Crookston itself.

High damage potential

What 1.5" hail means for Crookston roofs.

Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

392 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$4.7M

Potential roof exposure — 392 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 2 jobs
Illustrative work: ~$30K

Close just 0.5% of the 392 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 $82 on top of the $150 plan.

Crookston hail history

14 recorded storm days in Crookston, NE

← All hail in Crookston

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Crookston, NE on Aug 27, 2026

Estimated-size surface

Storm date Crookston / NE

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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 28, 2026.

The 6th most severe storm Crookston has seen in the last 12 months

How Crookston saw the hail — from two instruments

Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Crookston's hail record.

What people on the ground reported

Wind reports

How the storm moved

What 1.5" hail means for Crookston roofs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

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