Hail in Hot Springs · Jun 4, 2026
Convective day · Jun 4, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 18th most severe storm Hot Springs 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Hot Springs 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.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
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.
The storm in context
Where Jun 4, 2026 sits in Hot Springs's hail record.
This was Hot Springs's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jun 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 18th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hot Springs at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hot Springs: the same system put hail over 241 other tracked cities, 80 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Oglala (43 miles east, up to 1.75"); Pine Ridge (45 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Hill City (46 miles north, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 18 Hot Springs 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Hot Springs 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Hot Springs roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Hot Springs hail history
Other storms in Hot Springs.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 27, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 21, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
4"
Estimated-size surface Jul 28, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
4"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 28, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jun 26, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 21, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
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