Hail in La Crosse Jul 18, 2026
Hit 16 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over La Crosse this day.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft2,595
0
none filedThe most severe storm La Crosse 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
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 68 /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 La Crosse 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 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over La Crosse, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in La Crosse's hail record
This was La Crosse's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Jun 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over La Crosse at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than La Crosse: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 37 of them in Virginia. Nearest: Lawrenceville (17 miles east, up to 0.5"); Skipwith (22 miles west, up to 0.75"); Henderson (22 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from La Crosse's Jul 18, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over La Crosse. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 0.75" hail means for La Crosse roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
$31M
Potential roof exposure — 2,595 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over La Crosse on the live map
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