Hail in Ravenna · Aug 12, 2026
Convective day · Aug 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Ravenna has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Ravenna 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 signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Aug 12, 2026 sits in Ravenna's hail record.
This was Ravenna's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the Jul 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ravenna at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ravenna: the same system put hail over 507 other tracked cities, 43 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Litchfield (12 miles northwest, up to 1"); North Loup (22 miles north, up to 1.5"); Mason City (23 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Ravenna storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Ravenna. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Ravenna roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Ravenna hail history
Other storms in Ravenna.
Estimated-size surface Aug 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 5, 2026
1.75"
NEXRAD surface May 18, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
3.25"
Estimated-size surface May 16, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
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