Hail size 1"
13 SSE Vayland Hand County
“Time estimated. Also came with brief 50 to 60 mph gusts. (ABR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Wessington Jun 4, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 28 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.75" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
159
Ground reports
4
3 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Wessington 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.
5.9 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 44 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 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'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
2.5"
Detections
28
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1.75"
Where Jun 4, 2026 sits in Wessington's hail record
This was Wessington's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wessington at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wessington: the same system put hail over 241 other tracked cities, 80 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Saint Lawrence (8 miles northwest, up to 3.75"); Miller (12 miles west, up to 3"); Wessington Springs (14 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Wessington's Jun 4, 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.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1"
10 S Wessington Beadle County
“(FSD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
6 S Wessington Hand County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (ABR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 86 mph
12 ESE Sunshine Bible A Hand County
“Mesonet station RHUS2 Danforth 5 E. Time estimated by radar. (ABR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
The storm tracked southwest at roughly 5 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 67 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Vayland and Sunshine Bible A — beyond Wessington itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Wessington 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
$1.9M
Potential roof exposure — 159 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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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Wessington hail history
← All hail in Wessington 4 recorded storm days in Wessington, SD
Other storms in Wessington
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.