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Hail in Quinn · Aug 11, 2026

Hit 32 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 2.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Quinn that day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 2.5" ≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 880
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 11, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Quinn has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 5.5 / 10
Storm severity score

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

5.5 /10
Peak hail signal
63 /100

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

Homes exposed
59 /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 Quinn saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 11, 2026 · Quinn, SD

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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Quinn, SD on Aug 11, 2026 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.

Max size 2.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 11, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Quinn, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 11, 2026 sits in Quinn's hail record.

This was Quinn's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Quinn at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Quinn: the same system put hail over 1,041 other tracked cities, 44 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Wall (10 miles west, up to 2.75"); Philip (18 miles east, up to 1.5"); Wasta (23 miles west, up to 2.25").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Quinn 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 84 mph
2 E Cottonwood Jackson County

“(UNR)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Reports came from Cottonwood — beyond Quinn itself.

Severe hail signal

What 2.5" hail means for Quinn roofs.

Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

880 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$11M

Potential roof exposure — 880 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K

Close just 0.5% of the 880 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

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $185 on top of the $150 plan.

Quinn hail history

8 recorded storm days in Quinn, 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 Aug 12, 2026.