Hail in Wessington Springs Jul 26, 2026
Hit 8 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wessington Springs this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 7th most severe storm Wessington Springs has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Wessington Springs saw the hail — from two instruments
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 over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wessington Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Wessington Springs's hail record
This was Wessington Springs's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wessington Springs at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wessington Springs: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities. Nearest: Wayne (156 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Norfolk (159 miles south, up to 0.75"); Madison (170 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Wessington Springs's Jul 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.
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.
For this storm over Wessington Springs, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 0.5" hail means for Wessington Springs roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Wessington Springs on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Wessington Springs storm history — this Jul 26, 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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8 recorded storm days in Wessington Springs, SD
Other storms in Wessington Springs
Jul 25, 2026
0.75"
Jul 2, 2026
3"
Jun 27, 2026
Jun 9, 2026
0.75"
Jun 4, 2026
1"
Jun 3, 2026
1.75"
May 31, 2026
1"