Storm report · Pennington

Hail in Rapid City Jun 22, 2026

Hit 42 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Rapid City this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

7,443

Ground reports

4 hail

Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Rapid City 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.

4.4 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 77 /100
Ground truth: 67 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Rapid City 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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Rapid City, SD on Jun 22, 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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Rapid City, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 22, 2026 sits in Rapid City's hail record

This was Rapid City's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Jun 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rapid City at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rapid City: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 14 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Deadwood (7 miles north, up to 2.25"); Black Hawk (9 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Custer (21 miles south, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Rapid City's Jun 22, 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.

Hail reports

4 reports

Hail size 1"

2 SW Dwtn Rapid City Pennington County

11:58 PM UTC

“Between Skyline Dr and the Mountain View Cemetary area. Some stones still quarter size an hour after the storm. Time estimated. (UNR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

2 WSW Dwtn Rapid City Pennington County

11:52 PM UTC

“(UNR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

3 WSW Dwtn Rapid City Pennington County

11:56 PM UTC

“Hail of at least quarter size covered the ground near Dew Drop Laundromat. Photos and videos recieved via social media. Time estimated based on radar. (UNR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

4 WSW Dwtn Rapid City Pennington County

11:59 PM UTC

“(UNR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from Dwtn Rapid City — beyond Rapid City itself.

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

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Rapid City roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$89M

Potential roof exposure — 7,443 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

37 jobs

Illustrative work

~$555K

Close just 0.5% of the 7,443 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.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Rapid City hail history

17 recorded storm days in Rapid City, SD

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