“Mesonet station 324 SD RWIS WAGNER. (FSD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Avon Jun 27, 2026
Hit 37 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft.
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft968
1
1 windThe 2nd most severe storm Avon has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Avon 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.
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.
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.
Where Jun 27, 2026 sits in Avon's hail record
This was Avon's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 41 days after the May 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Avon at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Avon: the same system put hail over 587 other tracked cities, 131 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Tyndall (12 miles northeast, up to 0"); Springfield (15 miles east, up to 0"); Wagner (16 miles northwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Avon's Jun 27, 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.
Wind reports
1 reportHow the storm moved
Reports came from Dante — beyond Avon itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Avon roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
$12M
Potential roof exposure — 968 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Avon on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Avon storm history — this Jun 27, 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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3 recorded storm days in Avon, SD