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Hail in Wheatland Jun 1, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 40 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2"

≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

31

Ground reports

3

2 hail · 1 wind
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Wheatland 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.

4.5 /10
Hail size
50 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
30 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
50 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Wheatland 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Wheatland, WY on Jun 1, 2026

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 2" Detections 40
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Wheatland, WY on Jun 1, 2026

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 1.25"
The storm in context

Where Jun 1, 2026 sits in Wheatland's hail record

This was Wheatland's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the May 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wheatland at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 1, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wheatland: the same system put hail over 827 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Wyoming. Nearest: Chugwater (31 miles southeast, up to 2"); Veteran (41 miles east, up to 1.25"); Fort Laramie (41 miles northeast, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Wheatland's Jun 1, 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.

Hail reports

2 reports
Hail size 1"
8 SW Wheatland Platte County

“Trained spotter reports quarter size hail near Wheatland Reservoir Number 1. (CYS)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Wheatland Platte County

“Trained spotter reports quarter size hail in Wheatland as well as minor ponding of water on roads. (CYS)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind reports

1 report
Wind gust 60 mph
1 SSE Bordeaux Platte County

“WYDOT sensor along Interstate 25 gust 60 MPH. (CYS)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

The storm tracked east at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.

Hail was reported over 45 minutes, from to .

Reports came from Bordeaux — beyond Wheatland itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2" hail means for Wheatland roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$372K

Potential roof exposure — 31 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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.

Track hail over Wheatland on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Wheatland storm history — this Jun 1, 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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Wheatland hail history

8 recorded storm days in Wheatland, WY

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Other storms in Wheatland

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.