Hail size 3"
8 NNW Stratton Hitchcock County
“Trained Spotter report of 3 inch hail measured and pictured. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Wauneta Jul 2, 2026
Hit 32 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
1,828
Ground reports
7
6 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Wauneta 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.
9.1 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 65 /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 Wauneta 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
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
4"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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
2.75"
Where Jul 2, 2026 sits in Wauneta's hail record
This was Wauneta's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wauneta at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wauneta: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 110 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Hamlet (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Enders (6 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Imperial (11 miles west, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Wauneta's Jul 2, 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
6 reports Hail size 1.5"
8 NNW Stratton Hitchcock County
“Trained Spotter report of 1-1.5 inch hail failing. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
8 NNW Stratton Hitchcock County
“Trained Spotter report of 2 inch hail measured and pictured. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
8 NNW Stratton Hitchcock County
“Trained Spotter report of baseball sized hail failing. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
8 NNW Stratton Hitchcock County
“Trained Spotter report of 2 inch hail failing. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
14 NW Stratton Dundy County
“estimated quarter to golf ball size hail. Time is estimated by radar. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 64 mph
1 SW Wauneta Chase County
“Personal Weather Station. (LBF)”
— 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 111 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Stratton — beyond Wauneta itself.
What 4" hail means for Wauneta 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
$22M
Potential roof exposure — 1,828 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
9 jobs
Illustrative work
~$135K
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 Wauneta on the live map
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Wauneta hail history
← All hail in Wauneta 13 recorded storm days in Wauneta, NE
Other storms in Wauneta
Jul 30, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 27, 2026
3.25" Estimated 3.25"
1
ground report 
Jul 22, 2026
Jul 8, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Jun 23, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 21, 2026
2.5" Estimated 2.5"
4
ground reports 
Jun 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 16, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.