Storm report · Douglas

Hail in South Range Jul 17, 2026

Hit 17 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over South Range this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

21

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm South Range 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.

1.4 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
27 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How South Range 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
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over South Range, WI on Jul 17, 2026

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.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over South Range, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in South Range's hail record

This was South Range's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Jun 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over South Range at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than South Range: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Wisconsin. Nearest: Superior (7 miles west, up to 0.75"); Solon Springs (14 miles south, up to 1.25"); Maple (14 miles east, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from South Range's Jul 17, 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.

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.

For this storm over South Range, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for South Range roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$252K

Potential roof exposure — 21 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 South Range on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full South Range storm history — this Jul 17, 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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South Range hail history

3 recorded storm days in South Range, WI

← All hail in South Range

Other storms in South Range

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.