Storm report · Sheridan

Hail in Rushville Jul 3, 2026

Hit 31 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 56 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

3"

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

911

Ground reports

1

1 hail
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Rushville 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.

6.2 /10
Hail size
75 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
59 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Rushville saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Rushville, NE on Jul 3, 2026

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 3" Detections 56
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Rushville, NE on Jul 3, 2026

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 2"
The storm in context

Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in Rushville's hail record

This was Rushville's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rushville at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rushville: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 145 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Hay Springs (18 miles south, up to 3.25"); Pine Ridge (28 miles north, up to 1.25"); Wounded Knee (28 miles north, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Rushville's Jul 3, 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.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1"
5 WSW Rushville Sheridan County

“Time estimated from radar. (LBF)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 3" hail means for Rushville 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

$11M

Potential roof exposure — 911 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K
Close just 0.5% of the 911 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Rushville on the live map

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Rushville hail history

11 recorded storm days in Rushville, NE

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Other storms in Rushville

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.