Storm report · Lyman

Hail in Presho Jul 2, 2026

Hit 32 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 40 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2"

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

95

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Presho has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

4.0 /10
Hail size
50 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
40 /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 Presho 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Presho, SD on Jul 2, 2026

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.

Max size 2" Detections 40
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Presho, SD on Jul 2, 2026

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"
The storm in context

Where Jul 2, 2026 sits in Presho's hail record

This was Presho's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jun 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Presho at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than Presho: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 153 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Vivian (10 miles west, up to 1.75"); Reliance (28 miles east, up to 2.5"); Lower Brule (28 miles northeast, up to 2.25").

These maps are stills from Presho's Jul 2, 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 Presho 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.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2" hail means for Presho roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.1M

Potential roof exposure — 95 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 Presho on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Presho storm history — this Jul 2, 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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Presho hail history

7 recorded storm days in Presho, SD

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Other storms in Presho

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 3, 2026.