Storm report · Dewey

Hail in Glencross Jul 7, 2026

Hit 27 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 18 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1.75"

≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

61

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

Glencross's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.5 /10
Hail size
44 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
36 /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 Glencross 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
Map image is still rendering for this surface.

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 1.75" Detections 18
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Glencross, SD on Jul 7, 2026

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 1.25"
The storm in context

Where Jul 7, 2026 sits in Glencross's hail record

This was Glencross's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Glencross at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Glencross: the same system put hail over 568 other tracked cities, 94 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Trail City (8 miles northeast, up to 2.5"); Timber Lake (10 miles west, up to 1.75"); Mobridge (15 miles east, up to 2.5").

These maps are stills from Glencross's Jul 7, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Glencross for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.75" hail means for Glencross roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$732K

Potential roof exposure — 61 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Glencross on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Glencross storm history — this Jul 7, 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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Glencross hail history

1 recorded storm day in Glencross, SD

← All hail in Glencross
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 1, 2026.