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Hail in Oral · Sep 6, 2026

Hit 6 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Oral that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 444
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Oral has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.4 / 10
Storm severity score

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

3.4 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
53 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Oral saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 6, 2026 · Oral, SD

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-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Oral, SD on Sep 6, 2026 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.

Max size 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 6, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Oral, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 6, 2026 sits in Oral's hail record.

This was Oral's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the Aug 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Oral at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Oral: the same system put hail over 608 other tracked cities, 33 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Buffalo Gap (7 miles north, up to 1"); Smithwick (11 miles south, up to 1"); Hot Springs (13 miles west, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Oral 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

1 report 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.

Wind reports

1 report
Wind gust 58 mph
2 SSW Oral Fall River County

“(UNR)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Oral roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

444 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$5.3M

Potential roof exposure — 444 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K

Close just 0.5% of the 444 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

September 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $93 on top of the $150 plan.

Oral hail history

7 recorded storm days in Oral, SD

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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 Sep 7, 2026.