Storm report · Gosper

Hail in Elwood Jun 24, 2026

Hit 40 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Elwood this day.

Largest hailstone

1.75"

≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

2,838

Ground reports

1

1 hail
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Elwood 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.

4.6 /10
Hail size
44 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
69 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Elwood 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 Elwood, NE on Jun 24, 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 1.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 24, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Elwood, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 24, 2026 sits in Elwood's hail record

This was Elwood's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Jun 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Elwood at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Elwood: the same system put hail over 383 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Eustis (10 miles west, up to 1.25"); Bertrand (15 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Cozad (21 miles north, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Elwood'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.

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.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1"
Elwood Gosper County

“Repot received via Facebook. (GID)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Widespread claimable damage

What 1.75" hail means for Elwood 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

$34M

Potential roof exposure — 2,838 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
14 jobs
Illustrative work
~$210K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,838 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 June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Elwood on the live map

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Elwood hail history

9 recorded storm days in Elwood, NE

← All hail in Elwood

Other storms in Elwood

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.