Hail size 2.75"
9 N Clinton Sheridan County
“Report with photo via social media. Time estimated from radar. (LBF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Gordon Jun 28, 2026
Hit 36 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 182 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 3.75" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
192
Ground reports
4
4 hailThe most severe storm Gordon 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.
8.1 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Gordon 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
4"
Detections
182
Radar-estimated hail size
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
3.75"
Where Jun 28, 2026 sits in Gordon's hail record
This was Gordon's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 27, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gordon at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gordon: the same system put hail over 348 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Rushville (29 miles west, up to 4"); Batesland (34 miles north, up to 4"); Hay Springs (35 miles west, up to 4").
These maps are stills from Gordon's Jun 28, 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
4 reports Hail size 2.5"
15 NW Gordon Sheridan County
“Report via social media with pictures. Time estimated from radar. (LBF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
10 N Clinton Sheridan County
“Delayed report via social media with pictures. Time estimated from radar. (LBF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
11 S Merriman Cherry County
“(LBF)”
— 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
The storm tracked west at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 258 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Clinton and Merriman — beyond Gordon itself.
What 4" hail means for Gordon roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$2.3M
Potential roof exposure — 192 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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 Gordon on the live map
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Gordon hail history
← All hail in Gordon 11 recorded storm days in Gordon, NE
Other storms in Gordon
Jul 29, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 28, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 7, 2026
3" Signatures 3" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 6, 2026
3.75" Signatures 3.75" Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 2.25"
1
ground report 
Jun 27, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2.25"
2
ground reports 
Jun 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
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.