Hail size 1.5"
3 SSE Three Lakes Oneida County
“Report and photo forwarded via broadcast media. (GRB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Rhinelander Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Rhinelander this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
5,857
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Rhinelander 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.
4.6 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 75 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Rhinelander 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Rhinelander, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Rhinelander's hail record
This was Rhinelander's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 33 days after the Jun 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rhinelander at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rhinelander: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 128 of them in Wisconsin. Nearest: Three Lakes (10 miles northeast, up to 1.5"); Argonne (15 miles east, up to 1.5"); Pelican Lake (16 miles southeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Rhinelander's Jul 27, 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
2 reports Hail size 1.75"
3 SW Clearwater Lake Oneida County
“(GRB)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 15 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Three Lakes and Clearwater Lake — beyond Rhinelander itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Rhinelander roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$70M
Potential roof exposure — 5,857 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
29 jobs
Illustrative work
~$435K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Rhinelander on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Rhinelander storm history — this Jul 27, 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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Rhinelander hail history
← All hail in Rhinelander 6 recorded storm days in Rhinelander, WI
Other storms in Rhinelander
Jun 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 27, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 12, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.