Hail in Johnstown Jul 30, 2026
Hit 4 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 11 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature121
0
none filedThe most severe storm Johnstown 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
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /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 Johnstown 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'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.
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.
Where Jul 30, 2026 sits in Johnstown's hail record
This was Johnstown's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Johnstown at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Johnstown: the same system put hail over 432 other tracked cities, 101 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Wood Lake (10 miles west, up to 3"); Ainsworth (12 miles southeast, up to 1"); Winner (31 miles north, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Johnstown's Jul 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Johnstown. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
What 2.5" hail means for Johnstown 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.
$1.5M
Potential roof exposure — 121 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Johnstown on the live map
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