Hail size 1.5"
1 W Norfolk Madison County
“Delayed report of hail up to ping pong ball sized along with wind driven hail damage to siding. Time estimated with radar. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Pierce Jun 29, 2026
Hit 35 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.75" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
14,115
Ground reports
8
5 hail · 3 windThe most severe storm Pierce 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.
9.6 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 83 /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 Pierce 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 radar signatures
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.
Max size
4"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
2.75"
Where Jun 29, 2026 sits in Pierce's hail record
This was Pierce's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 35 days after the May 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pierce at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pierce: the same system put hail over 702 other tracked cities, 70 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Osmond (9 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Randolph (10 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Carroll (15 miles east, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Pierce's Jun 29, 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
5 reports Hail size 1"
2 NNW Norfolk Madison County
“Trained spotter report of hail up to quarter sized... wind driven. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 NW Norfolk Madison County
“(OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 NW Norfolk Madison County
“(OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 E Hadar Pierce County
“(OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
3 reports Wind gust 101 mph
2 SE Hadar Madison County
“As measured at a personal weather station. Destroyed well-anchored car port. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 70 mph
2 NNW Norfolk Madison County
“Personal weather station measured wind gust. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 74 mph
1 E Hadar Pierce County
“Also reported that he was seeing tree damage from inside the house. (OAX)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 19 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Norfolk and Hadar — beyond Pierce itself.
What 4" hail means for Pierce 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$169M
Potential roof exposure — 14,115 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
71 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.1M
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 Pierce on the live map
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Pierce hail history
← All hail in Pierce 4 recorded storm days in Pierce, NE
Other storms in Pierce
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.