Hail in Interior · Jul 27, 2026
Convective day · Jul 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Interior 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
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /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 Interior 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Interior, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Interior's hail record.
This was Interior's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Interior at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Interior: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 11 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Wanblee (19 miles east, up to 1.75"); Kadoka (20 miles east, up to 0.75"); Wall (30 miles northwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Interior 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 Interior 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.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Interior roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$2.5M
Potential roof exposure — 208 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 208 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
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $44 on top of the $150 plan.
Interior hail history
Other storms in Interior.
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 28, 2026
4"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
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