Tornado Rating unknown
8 SSW Faith Meade County
“Tornado with full condensed ground contact ongoing observed from Highway 73 looking northwest. Debris being lofted around the base of the tornado. (UNR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Perkins
Hail in Faith · Aug 10, 2026
Hit 35 days ago
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 3.5" aloft. At 3.5" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 3.5" ≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 851
Ground reports 2 1 hail · 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Aug 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Faith has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 7.5 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
7.5 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 88 /100
- Homes exposed
- 59 /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 Faith saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 10, 2026 · Faith, SD
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 Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
3.5"
The storm in context
Where Aug 10, 2026 sits in Faith's hail record.
This was Faith's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jul 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Faith at 3.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Faith: the same system put hail over 616 other tracked cities, 26 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Howes (28 miles south, up to 1.75"); Meadow (31 miles north, up to 3"); Bison (41 miles northwest, up to 4").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Faith 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
2 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
1 report Hail size 2"
13 WNW Usta Perkins County
“Measured with a tape measure near the intersection of Chance Rd and Usta Rd. Report and photo received via social media. Time estimated based on radar. (UNR)”
— 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 47 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Usta — beyond Faith itself.
Severe hail signal
What 3.5" hail means for Faith roofs.
Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
851 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$10M
Potential roof exposure — 851 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 4 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$60K
Close just 0.5% of the 851 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
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $179 on top of the $150 plan.
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Aug 30, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Aug 17, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
4 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Jul 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Jul 25, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Jul 2, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 2.75"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Jun 27, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
Jun 26, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Faith / SD
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" 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 31, 2026.