Hail size 1"
Pender Thurston County
“(OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Pender May 17, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,043
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Pender 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.
3.5 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Pender 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1"
Where May 17, 2026 sits in Pender's hail record
This was Pender's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 73 days after the Mar 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pender at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pender: the same system put hail over 894 other tracked cities, 185 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Walthill (5 miles east, up to 1"); Bancroft (7 miles south, up to 1"); Thurston (9 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Pender's May 17, 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.
Hail reports
1 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 65 mph
Pender Thurston County
“Estimated wind speeds. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
What 1" hail means for Pender 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,043 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 May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Pender hail history
← All hail in Pender 6 recorded storm days in Pender, NE
Other storms in Pender
Jul 8, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 13, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 5, 2026
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.