Hail size 1"
Bellevue Sarpy County
“(OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Council Bluffs Jun 13, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Council Bluffs this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
60,297
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe most severe storm Council Bluffs has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.0 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 96 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Council Bluffs 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 13, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Council Bluffs, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 13, 2026 sits in Council Bluffs's hail record
This was Council Bluffs's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the May 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Council Bluffs at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Council Bluffs: the same system put hail over 587 other tracked cities, 40 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Bellevue (15 miles southwest, up to 1"); Pacific Junction (17 miles south, up to 1"); Glenwood (18 miles south, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Council Bluffs's Jun 13, 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.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1"
3 SSE Council Bluffs Pottawattamie County
“Picture of 1 inch hail via Facebook. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 ENE Bellevue Sarpy County
“Quarter-size hail and strong winds. Small limbs down. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Bellevue — beyond Council Bluffs itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Council Bluffs roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$724M
Potential roof exposure — 60,297 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
301 jobs
Illustrative work
~$4.5M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Council Bluffs on the live map
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Council Bluffs hail history
← All hail in Council Bluffs 10 recorded storm days in Council Bluffs, IA
Other storms in Council Bluffs
Jul 8, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 17, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
1
ground report 
Apr 23, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
Apr 3, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 5, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.