Hail in Charles City Jul 20, 2026
Hit 14 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Charles City this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft292
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Charles City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Charles City saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Charles City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 20, 2026 sits in Charles City's hail record
This was Charles City's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Charles City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Charles City: the same system put hail over 553 other tracked cities, 178 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Marble Rock (4 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Rudd (8 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Floyd (11 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Charles City's Jul 20, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Charles City for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.5" hail means for Charles City roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$3.5M
Potential roof exposure — 292 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Charles City on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Charles City, IA
Other storms in Charles City
Jul 2, 2026
2"
Jul 1, 2026
0.5"
Jun 28, 2026
0.75"
May 15, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
2"
Apr 13, 2026
0.75"