Tornado Rating unknown
7 S Kimball Kimball County
“[Landspout] Landspout over an open field. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Kimball Jun 22, 2026
Hit 42 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Kimball this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
996
Ground reports
10
8 hail · 2 tornadoThe most severe storm Kimball 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.
5.6 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Kimball saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Kimball, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 22, 2026 sits in Kimball's hail record
This was Kimball's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 32 days after the May 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kimball at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kimball: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Bushnell (13 miles west, up to 2"); Harrisburg (16 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Pine Bluffs (21 miles west, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Kimball's Jun 22, 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.
Tornado reports
2 reports Tornado Rating unknown
7 SSW Kimball Kimball County
“[Landspout] Reports of two concurrent landspouts. Confirmed via livestream and pictures on social media. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail reports
8 reports Hail size 1.5"
9 S Kimball Kimball County
“(CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
13 S Kimball Kimball County
“Trained Spotter reported 2 inch hail falling out of core on HWY 71. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
7 S Kimball Kimball County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
2 W Kimball Kimball County
“Corrects previous hail report from 2 W Kimball. Reports of 1-2 inches of hail on the ground. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Kimball Kimball County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
3 W Kimball Kimball County
“Car windows busted. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
4 WNW Kimball Kimball County
“Picture report via social media from a meteorologist and trained spotter. (CYS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
6 NW Kimball Kimball County
“(CYS)”
— 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 south at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 101 minutes, from to .
What 1.75" hail means for Kimball 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
$12M
Potential roof exposure — 996 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K
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 Kimball on the live map
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Kimball hail history
← All hail in Kimball 4 recorded storm days in Kimball, NE
Other storms in Kimball
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.