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Grand Rapids hail season 1999

2 NWS-recorded hail reports ≥1″ within 25 miles, across 1 storm days, max 2.00". Every one of those reports is a dated, located, citable official record — the context behind this market's 1999 claim volume.

Biggest storm days (1999, final record)

“Numerous reports of severe weather included the following: 7/8" diameter hail observed in Byron Center; Storm gutters that were blown off of a few homes in Kentwood; large limbs and a few trees were blown down across southern Kent county; several reports of 3/4" to 1.25" hail in Wyoming and Kentwood; and several windows that were blown out of cars in Wyoming.”

— NWS event narrative, July 28, 1999 (NCEI Storm Events)

When it fell

Jul 2

Wind context: the record also holds 13 thunderstorm-wind events ≥50 kt (≈58 mph, the NWS severe criterion) in this radius for 1999 — relevant where the dispute is wind vs hail causation.

Working a Grand Rapids claim from 1999?

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Provenance

Final counts: NCEI Storm Events Database, file vintage c20260527, hail events with recorded magnitude ≥1.00″ and point coordinates within 25 miles of the Grand Rapids anchor. NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure. Spotted an error? Email the address on our terms page and we correct against the source.