NOAA weather radar detected hail over 29 of the 1000 US cities we track on this date, across 5 states (CO, IL, MN, NE, WI) — 104 radar detections in total. The most active was Lincoln, NE with 11.
Check a specific address for this date →These dates are GMT, not local. GMT runs 5–8 hours ahead of the US, so a storm that hit at 8:30 PM local on one evening is recorded here under the following date. Evening storms are the norm across the Plains and the Southeast. If you are writing a date of loss on a claim form, check the local time — being one day off is a real reason a carrier can push back.
| City | Radar detections |
|---|---|
| Lincoln, NE | 11 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 9 |
| Beloit, WI | 8 |
| Rochester, MN | 7 |
| Apple Valley, MN | 5 |
| Coon Rapids, MN | 5 |
| St. Paul, MN | 5 |
| Woodbury, MN | 5 |
| Addison, IL | 4 |
| Carol Stream, IL | 4 |
| Lombard, IL | 4 |
| Mankato, MN | 4 |
| Wheaton, IL | 4 |
| Blaine, MN | 3 |
| Commerce City, CO | 3 |
| Eagan, MN | 3 |
| Maplewood, MN | 3 |
| St. Louis Park, MN | 3 |
| Brooklyn Park, MN | 2 |
| Fond du Lac, WI | 2 |
| Omaha, NE | 2 |
| Eden Prairie, MN | 1 |
| Edina, MN | 1 |
| Elmhurst, IL | 1 |
| Greeley, CO | 1 |
| Janesville, WI | 1 |
| Minnetonka, MN | 1 |
| Shakopee, MN | 1 |
| Sheboygan, WI | 1 |
These are city-centre tiles. To see whether radar registered hail over your street on May 16, 2017 — and every other date going back to 1992 — run the free address lookup. No signup, no account, and you can download the result as a CSV.
Look up your address →What a detection means. Counts describe a 0.1° grid tile — roughly 7 miles north to south — containing the city, not a specific address. A detection inside the tile does not prove hail fell on any particular roof, and no detection does not prove none fell. This is a screening tool, not an insurance claim, a loss report, or an engineering inspection.
NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory,
dataset nx3hail — NEXRAD Level-III Hail Detection Algorithm output. Public-domain US
government data.
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