“A personal weather station near Armour reported a 73 mph wind gust. (FSD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Armour · Jun 9, 2026
Convective day · Jun 9, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Armour has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 53 /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 Armour saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 9, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Armour, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 9, 2026 sits in Armour's hail record.
This was Armour's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Armour at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Armour: the same system put hail over 646 other tracked cities, 67 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Delmont (13 miles east, up to 1"); Geddes (14 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Bristow (21 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Armour 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
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“A personal weather station near Lake Andes recorded a 59 mph wind gust. (FSD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 10 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Lake Andes — beyond Armour itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Armour 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.
Potential roof exposure
$5.1M
Potential roof exposure — 427 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 2 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$30K
Close just 0.5% of the 427 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
June 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $90 on top of the $150 plan.
Armour hail history
Other storms in Armour.
Estimated-size surface Sep 7, 2026
0.75"Sep 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 17, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 3, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
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