Wind gust 74 mph
1 SW Scotia Greeley County
“Personal weather station reports gust to 74mph. (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Greeley
Hail in Scotia · Aug 12, 2026
Hit 31 days ago
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,326
Ground reports 2 2 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Aug 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Scotia has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 62 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Scotia saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 12, 2026 · Scotia, NE
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.25"
The storm in context
Where Aug 12, 2026 sits in Scotia's hail record.
This was Scotia's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Aug 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Scotia at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Scotia: the same system put hail over 507 other tracked cities, 43 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Greeley (9 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); North Loup (10 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Spalding (16 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Scotia 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
2 reports filed with the NWS
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.
Wind reports
2 reports Wind gust 68 mph
6 NNW Greeley Greeley County
“Nebraska Mesonet station reports gust to 68mph. (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 22 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Greeley — beyond Scotia itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Scotia roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
1,326 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$16M
Potential roof exposure — 1,326 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 7 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$105K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,326 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.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $278 on top of the $150 plan.
Scotia hail history
Other storms in Scotia.
11 recorded storm days in Scotia, NE
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Aug 17, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
5 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Aug 8, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Jul 8, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Jun 29, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2"
5 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Jun 12, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
Jun 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
May 17, 2026
4" Signatures 4"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Scotia / NE
May 16, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 18, 2026.