The big hail was mostly spent by June 30th, but the system that lit up the Plains on the 29th didn't pack up — it flattened out into a wind line and marched south. The day ran 122 reports, and 99 of them were wind: fewer bullseyes, one long shove of gusts down through the Central Plains.
Nebraska sat at the center again with 29 reports and the day's hardest gust, 85 mph at Martin. Kansas logged 20, nearly all wind, and Iowa and Minnesota each took a dozen more. That's the signature of a wind line — a fast shelf of air that hits one town after another straight down its path instead of parking over a single county.
What hail there was came small and scattered — the biggest a 1.75-inch stone at Homer, Nebraska. Colorado put down the day's only two tornadoes out around Crook, and a couple of stray 1.75-inch stones landed well east of everything, in upstate New York near South Lansing and western Wisconsin at Independence.
Wind damage lies to you in a way hail doesn't. Nothing has to be missing for a roof to be hurt — an 80-mph gust rarely tears shingles off, it just breaks the seal strips loose so the tabs stop lying flat. From the yard the roof looks untouched; the first hard rain after finds every spot that quit sealing. If this line crossed you, the tell is tabs you can lift by hand and shingle grit washed into the gutters, not a bare patch you can spot from the street.
For the crews, the work is linear this time — follow the wind belt from Nebraska into Kansas and Iowa rather than circling one hot spot. It's spread out, but the damage is a day old and easy to document. The running hail tally still lives on the Top States for Hail board. Everybody else — find your town in the state-by-state list below and see what the line left next to you.