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Severe storms rolled across Nebraska's southwest corner on the evening of July 27, 2026, dropping golf-ball-size hail (1.75") in the Enders Reservoir area between Imperial and Wauneta and driving a measured 62 mph wind gust through northern Dundy County. Golf-ball hail is well past the size where roof damage begins — and much of that damage doesn't show from the ground. For a lot of Chase County homeowners, it's the latest in a punishing summer.
1.75" (Golf Ball)
Largest Hail
62 mph
Peak Wind Gust
4
Towns Hit
On the evening of Sunday, July 27, 2026, a line of severe thunderstorms tracked across Nebraska's southwest corner and focused on the Enders Reservoir area of Chase County. The National Weather Service in North Platte logged golf-ball-size hail (1.75") about five miles south of Enders — the small community on the reservoir between Imperial and Wauneta — around 9:00 PM. Minutes later, an Enders-area mesonet measured a 62 mph wind gust in the same corridor, just past the 58 mph threshold the NWS uses to define a severe storm, near Max in northern Dundy County.
Golf-ball hail is well past the roughly one-inch mark where roof damage begins. Stones that size bruise the shingle mat, knock the protective granules loose, and dent gutters, vents, and flashing — and when a 60-plus mph wind drives them in at an angle, the storm-facing walls take the worst of it, cracking or holing vinyl siding and breaking window seals. A lot of that damage isn't visible from the driveway; bruised shingles and broken granule surfaces can look fine from the ground while quietly shortening the life of a roof and opening the door to leaks months down the road.
July 27 was only the latest hit for the southwest corner. Barely five weeks earlier, the June 21–25 outbreak pounded the same area — baseball-size hail (2.75") fell at Wauneta on June 25 with tennis-ball hail (2.50") four days before, Imperial took golf-ball hail on June 21, and nearby Grant was raked by tennis-ball hail and an 89 mph gust. Chase County roofs that were already battered in June and then hit again in July are well overdue for a close, professional look.
Here's what was reported in each community we serve. Click a town for local roofing, gutter, and siding help.
Golf-ball hail (1.75") reported to the southeast near Enders on July 27, in the same Chase County storm that produced 62 mph winds — on top of the golf-ball hail the town saw back on June 21.
Imperial storm helpThe closest town to the July 27 golf-ball hail, measured about nine miles west near Enders — the third significant hail event here in five weeks after baseball hail (2.75") on June 25 and tennis-ball hail on June 21.
Wauneta storm helpGolf-ball hail (1.75") confirmed about five miles south of the reservoir community the evening of July 27 — the largest hail measured anywhere in the event.
A 62 mph wind gust clocked by the Enders-area mesonet northwest of town on July 27 — past the 58 mph severe threshold and strong enough to lift shingle tabs and pull gutters loose.
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Storm damage is often invisible from the ground. Here's a homeowner's checklist after an event like this one.
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