Hail in Wounded Knee · Jun 22, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wounded Knee that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jun 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Wounded Knee has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 10 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Wounded Knee 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wounded Knee, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 22, 2026 sits in Wounded Knee's hail record.
This was Wounded Knee's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 20 days after the Jun 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wounded Knee at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wounded Knee: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 14 of them in South Dakota. Nearest: Oglala (16 miles northwest, up to 1"); Pine Ridge (16 miles west, up to 0.5"); Hay Springs (23 miles southwest, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Wounded Knee storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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 Wounded Knee 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Wounded Knee roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$24K
Potential roof exposure — 2 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
June 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $0 on top of the $150 plan.
Wounded Knee hail history
Other storms in Wounded Knee.
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 28, 2026
4"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
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