Storm report · Polk

Hail in Turtle Lake 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 Turtle Lake this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

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

91

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 5th most severe storm Turtle Lake 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.

1.7 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
39 /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 Turtle Lake saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Turtle Lake, WI on Jul 17, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.5"

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

The storm in context

Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Turtle Lake's hail record

This was Turtle Lake's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 28 days after the Jun 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Turtle Lake at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Turtle Lake: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Wisconsin. Nearest: Clayton (10 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Comstock (12 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Cumberland (14 miles northeast, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Turtle Lake'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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Turtle Lake. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Turtle Lake 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

$1.1M

Potential roof exposure — 91 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 Turtle Lake on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Turtle Lake 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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Turtle Lake hail history

6 recorded storm days in Turtle Lake, WI

← All hail in Turtle Lake

Other storms in Turtle Lake

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.