Hail in Grand Island May 30, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 8th most severe storm Grand Island has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Grand Island 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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for May 30, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 30, 2026 sits in Grand Island's hail record
This was Grand Island's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the May 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Grand Island at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Grand Island: the same system put hail over 541 other tracked cities, 102 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Loup City (34 miles northwest, up to 1"); Scotia (35 miles northwest, up to 1"); Juniata (36 miles south, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Grand Island's May 30, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Grand Island for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0" hail means for Grand Island roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Grand Island on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Grand Island storm history — this May 30, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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8 recorded storm days in Grand Island, NE
Other storms in Grand Island
Jul 30, 2026
1"
Jul 8, 2026
3.25"
Jun 20, 2026
0.75"
Jun 10, 2026
1.5"
Jun 5, 2026
1.75"
May 16, 2026
2.5"
Apr 10, 2026
0.5"