Storm report · Pennington

Hail in Rapid City Jun 26, 2026

Hit 38 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

287

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 9th 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.

2.7 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 49 /100
Ground truth: 0 /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.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Rapid City, SD on Jun 26, 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 1" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Rapid City, SD on Jun 26, 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 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Jun 26, 2026 sits in Rapid City's hail record

This was Rapid City's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jun 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rapid City at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rapid City: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 33 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Deadwood (7 miles north, up to 1"); Black Hawk (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Nemo (9 miles northwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Rapid City's Jun 26, 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 Rapid City 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.

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

$3.4M

Potential roof exposure — 287 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 287 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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