Storm report · Hitchcock

Hail in Trenton Jun 20, 2026

Hit 44 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Trenton this day. At 3.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

3.75"

≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

1,326

Ground reports

1

1 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Trenton 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.

7.4 /10
Hail size
94 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
62 /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 Trenton 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-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Trenton, NE on Jun 20, 2026

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 3.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Trenton, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 20, 2026 sits in Trenton's hail record

This was Trenton's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the May 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Trenton at 3.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Trenton: the same system put hail over 298 other tracked cities, 84 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Ludell (12 miles southeast, up to 3.5"); Stratton (14 miles west, up to 3.75"); Mc Donald (17 miles southwest, up to 2").

These maps are stills from Trenton's Jun 20, 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 1.25"
9 SSW Trenton Hitchcock County

“Spotter network report of half dollar sized hail falling as of time of report. (GLD)”

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

What 3.75" hail means for Trenton 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

$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.
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 Trenton on the live map

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Trenton hail history

5 recorded storm days in Trenton, NE

← All hail in Trenton

Other storms in Trenton

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.