Storm report · Hanson

Hail in Alexandria Jul 25, 2026

Hit 9 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Alexandria 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.

0.0 /10
Hail size
0 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Alexandria saw the hail — from two instruments

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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Alexandria, SD on Jul 25, 2026

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
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Alexandria, SD on Jul 25, 2026

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 0"
The storm in context

Where Jul 25, 2026 sits in Alexandria's hail record

This was Alexandria's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 23 days after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Alexandria at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Alexandria: the same system put hail over 303 other tracked cities, 102 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Emery (9 miles northeast, up to 0"); Mitchell (20 miles northwest, up to 1"); Freeman (20 miles southeast, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Alexandria's Jul 25, 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.

For this storm over Alexandria, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0" hail means for Alexandria roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

Track hail over Alexandria on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Alexandria storm history — this Jul 25, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Alexandria hail history

6 recorded storm days in Alexandria, SD

← All hail in Alexandria

Other storms in Alexandria

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.