Hail in White Lake Jul 2, 2026
Hit 32 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 5 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
3"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature34
0
none filedThe most severe storm White Lake 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
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 31 /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 White Lake saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Where Jul 2, 2026 sits in White Lake's hail record
This was White Lake's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over White Lake at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than White Lake: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 153 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Kimball (16 miles northwest, up to 2.75"); Plankinton (16 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Pukwana (21 miles west, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from White Lake's Jul 2, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over White Lake 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.
What 3" hail means for White Lake 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.
$408K
Potential roof exposure — 34 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over White Lake on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in White Lake, SD
Other storms in White Lake
Jul 25, 2026
0.75"
Jun 30, 2026
1"
Jun 27, 2026
0.5"
Jun 9, 2026
0.75"
Jun 3, 2026
1.75"
Apr 13, 2026
0.5"