Hail size 1"
Blunt Hughes County
“Hailed for maybe 10 minutes. Mostly dimes to nickels. A few quarters. Some wind... but not strong. No damage to any trees surrounding the property. Time estimated off o (ABR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Hughes
Hail in Blunt · Jun 9, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Blunt that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 96
Ground reports 3 1 hail · 2 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 9, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Blunt has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 40 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Blunt saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 9, 2026 · Blunt, SD
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 9, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Blunt, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 9, 2026 sits in Blunt's hail record.
This was Blunt's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Blunt at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Blunt: the same system put hail over 646 other tracked cities, 67 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Harrold (10 miles east, up to 1"); Holabird (21 miles east, up to 1"); Pierre (22 miles northwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Blunt 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
3 reports filed with the NWS
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 reportWind reports
2 reports Wind gust 65 mph
4 WSW Blunt Hughes County
“(ABR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 65 mph
4 SSE Canning Hughes County
“Mesonet station PIMS2 Pierre 17E (SD Mesonet). (ABR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 25 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Canning — beyond Blunt itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Blunt 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.
96 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.2M
Potential roof exposure — 96 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 $20 on top of the $150 plan.
Estimated-size surface Storm date Blunt / SD
Jul 25, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Blunt / SD
Jul 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Blunt / SD
Jul 7, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Blunt / SD
Jun 28, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Blunt / SD
Jun 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.