Hail in Coralville · Apr 23, 2026
Convective day · Apr 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Coralville has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Coralville saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 23, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Coralville's hail record.
This was Coralville's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Mar 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Coralville at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Coralville: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 252 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Swisher (9 miles northwest, up to 1"); Solon (10 miles northeast, up to 1"); Riverside (14 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Coralville storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
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.
For this storm over Coralville, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Coralville roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Coralville hail history
Other storms in Coralville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 30, 2026
1"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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