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For the third time in eight days, severe storms took aim at Nebraska's southwest corner on July 10, 2026. Golf-ball hail up to 1.75 inches fell near Max in Dundy County, logged by the National Weather Service office in Goodland (GLD), with a 60 mph thunderstorm gust reported nearby. It's the same slice of Dundy and Hitchcock County that took baseball- to 3-inch hail at Stratton on July 3 and hen-egg stones on July 8 — a corner of the state that simply hasn't caught a break this summer.
The cell carried its hail across the state line into northwest Kansas, where spotters near McDonald measured and photographed quarter-sized stones in three separate reports. Storms like this one — compact, fast, and hail-heavy — are the signature of southwest Nebraska's high-plains summer, where afternoon heating fires isolated supercells that can pummel one town and skip the next. For homeowners around Max, the repetition is the real danger: each round chips a little more life out of a roof that may already have been softened by the last.
Repeated hail is cumulative — stones that split a few shingles one week and loosen a few more the next, until a roof that still looks intact from the ground is quietly past its service life. Southeast Seamless tracks severe weather across all of Nebraska, and while Dundy County sits far outside our southeast service area, homeowners in the southwest can use the lookup tool below to map every storm that has crossed their address this season before deciding whether an inspection and a claim are worth filing.
Read about the Statewide, Nebraska storm above? Now find out how close it actually came to your address. Insurance companies want a specific storm and a specific date. Look up your address below to see exactly which hail and wind events passed over your home — so you can file with confidence, not guesswork.
Enter your address to see recent storms, how close they passed, and the exact dates — the same details your insurer will ask for.
Not every storm is worth a claim. As a rule of thumb, it's worth having us take a look if all three of these are true:
Here's where the Statewide, Nebraska storm caused the most damage. If you're in or near one of these towns, get your roof checked.
Golf-ball hail up to 1.75" fell near Max, with a 60 mph gust nearby — the third severe hit on this corner of the state in eight days.
Just over the Kansas border, spotters near McDonald measured and photographed quarter-sized 1" hail in three separate reports as the cell crossed the state line.
Storm damage often hides until the next heavy rain. Here's what to check after a hail or wind event — or let us do it for you, free.
In Nebraska you typically have a limited window — often one to two years from the date of the storm — to file a hail or wind damage claim. Document damage early, before the deadline and before the next heavy rain turns a hidden bruise into an interior leak.
Yes. Golf-ball hail up to 1.75 inches fell near Max in Dundy County on July 10, 2026, with a 60 mph gust nearby, in reports logged by the National Weather Service in Goodland. Quarter-sized hail fell just across the line in northwest Kansas at McDonald.
About 1.75 inches — golf-ball size. Stones that large fall hard enough to bruise and split shingles, dent gutters and metal roofing, and crack older siding, and the damage is often invisible from the ground even when the roof is compromised.
Repeatedly. The Max and Stratton area of Dundy and Hitchcock County took 3-inch hail on July 3, hen-egg hail on July 8, and golf-ball hail on July 10 — three severe rounds in just over a week. Each round adds cumulative wear, so a roof that survived the first hit may not survive the next.
Most Nebraska policies allow one to two years from the storm date to file a hail claim, so the July 10, 2026 window is already open. Southeast Seamless works in southeast Nebraska, well east of Dundy County, but the storm-lookup tool on this page works statewide — pair it with dated photos to give any southwest Nebraska homeowner a strong start on a claim. Questions? Call (402) 265-3017.
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