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The hardest wind Nebraska has taken in nearly three weeks arrived on the afternoon of July 28, 2026, when an 80 mph gust was measured two miles north of Broadwater in Morrill County and logged by the National Weather Service office in Cheyenne (CYS). Broadwater itself had recorded 64 mph thirteen minutes earlier. Nothing in the state had gusted that hard since the 85 mph reading at the Aurora airport on July 9, and at 80 mph wind stops being a nuisance and starts removing roofing material outright.
Hail came with it. Spotters southeast of Angora in Morrill County measured one-inch stones at 3:11 p.m. Mountain time and 1.50-inch stones six minutes after that, and by just past 5 p.m. the largest hail of the day — 1.75-inch golf balls — was reported east-southeast of Lisco in Garden County under the North Platte office (LBF). The line then swung southeast, dropping three separate gusts of 61, 65, and 68 mph around Oshkosh, and closed its run with 66 mph and 62 mph readings near Lodgepole in the southern panhandle before crossing toward the Colorado border. For western Nebraska it was the third damaging storm in nine days, after the July 20 wind that flattened power poles near Henry and the 75 mph gusts along the Wyoming line on July 25.
A roof that takes golf-ball hail and 80 mph wind inside the same half hour has been worked from two directions at once: the hail thins and bruises the surface, and the wind then pulls at whatever the hail just loosened. That pairing does more harm than either hazard on its own, and it almost never shows itself the same afternoon. Southeast Seamless keeps a statewide record of severe weather, and Morrill, Garden, and Deuel counties sit a long way west of the counties our crews actually work — so treat this as documentation, not a sales call. The lookup tool below covers the whole state: pull July 28 against your address, stack it against whatever else has crossed your property this summer, and hand that list to a panhandle contractor while the date is still easy to prove.
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.
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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.
The day's peak: an 80 mph gust two miles north of town, following a 64 mph reading in Broadwater itself minutes earlier.
Southeast of Angora, spotters measured one-inch hail at 3:11 p.m. Mountain time and 1.50-inch stones six minutes later.
The largest hail in Nebraska on July 28: 1.75" golf balls reported two miles east-southeast of Lisco just after 5 p.m.
Three separate gusts ringed the town as the line pushed through — 65 mph to the west-northwest, 61 mph to the southwest, and 68 mph to the south-southwest.
The line's last severe reports: 66 mph northeast of Lodgepole and 62 mph east-southeast of it, before the storms crossed toward Colorado.
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. The National Weather Service office in Cheyenne measured an 80 mph gust two miles north of Broadwater in Morrill County on the afternoon of July 28, 2026, with 64 mph clocked in Broadwater minutes earlier. It was the strongest wind reported anywhere in Nebraska since July 9.
Up to 1.75 inches — golf-ball size — reported east-southeast of Lisco in Garden County just after 5 p.m. Mountain time. Earlier in the afternoon, spotters near Angora in Morrill County measured 1.00-inch and then 1.50-inch stones as the same storms developed to the northwest.
Three in the final nine days of the month alone: damaging wind near Henry in Scotts Bluff County on July 20, gusts to 75 mph along the Wyoming line on July 25, and the July 28 hail-and-wind event across Morrill and Garden counties. Western Nebraska has absorbed most of the state's late-July severe weather.
More damage than either causes alone. Hail thins the granule surface and weakens shingle mats; high wind immediately afterward lifts and peels the sections the hail just compromised, and drives rain into the openings. A roof hit by both in one storm can leak within weeks while still looking intact from the ground.
Photograph everything now, while July 28, 2026 is simple to establish as the date, and use the storm-lookup tool on this page to show how the swath crossed your address. Most Nebraska policies allow one to two years to file. Southeast Seamless works in southeast Nebraska, not the panhandle, so pair that record with a contractor local to Morrill or Garden County.
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