Hail in Hot Springs · Jun 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Hot Springs that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jun 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 17th 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
- 13 /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
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Hot Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Hot Springs's hail record.
This was Hot Springs's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Jun 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 17th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hot Springs at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hot Springs: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 2 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Pringle (18 miles north, up to 0.5"); Chadron (41 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Hill City (46 miles north, up to 0.5").
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Hot Springs. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" 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 6, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 4, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
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