Storm report · Lincoln

Hail in North Platte Jun 7, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over North Platte this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

18

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 13th most severe storm North Platte 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.

1.4 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
26 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How North Platte 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 North Platte, NE on Jun 7, 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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 7, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over North Platte, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 7, 2026 sits in North Platte's hail record

This was North Platte's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Jun 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over North Platte at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than North Platte: the same system put hail over 237 other tracked cities, 21 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Maxwell (11 miles east, up to 1"); Wallace (30 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Elsie (38 miles southwest, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from North Platte's Jun 7, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over North Platte. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for North Platte 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$216K

Potential roof exposure — 18 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 North Platte on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full North Platte storm history — this Jun 7, 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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North Platte hail history

13 recorded storm days in North Platte, NE

← All hail in North Platte

Other storms in North Platte

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.