Hail in Orleans Jul 22, 2026
Hit 12 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature0
0
none filedThe 6th most severe storm Orleans 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
- 25 /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 Orleans 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 Jul 22, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 22, 2026 sits in Orleans's hail record
This was Orleans's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Orleans at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Orleans: the same system put hail over 158 other tracked cities, 14 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Alma (5 miles east, up to 1"); Prairie View (21 miles south, up to 0"); Bloomington (27 miles east, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Orleans's Jul 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Orleans. 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.
What 1" hail means for Orleans roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
Track hail over Orleans on the live map
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8 recorded storm days in Orleans, NE
Other storms in Orleans
Jul 30, 2026
1"
Jun 30, 2026
0.5"
Jun 24, 2026
1.75"
Jun 9, 2026
2.5"
Jun 8, 2026
2.75"
Jun 3, 2026
2"
May 16, 2026
1"