Storm report · Otoe

Hail in Dunbar Apr 14, 2026

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

Largest hailstone

0.75"

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

608

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 7th most severe storm Dunbar 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.

2.5 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
56 /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 Dunbar saw the hail — from two instruments

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Dunbar, NE on Apr 14, 2026

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Dunbar, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Dunbar's hail record

This was Dunbar's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 7th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Dunbar at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Dunbar: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 17 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Nebraska City (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Percival (13 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Brock (14 miles south, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Dunbar's Apr 14, 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.

For this storm over Dunbar, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Dunbar 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

$7.3M

Potential roof exposure — 608 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 608 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Dunbar on the live map

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Dunbar hail history

9 recorded storm days in Dunbar, NE

← All hail in Dunbar

Other storms in Dunbar

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.