Hail size 1"
Bellevue Sarpy County
“(OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Pottawattamie
Hail in Council Bluffs · Jun 13, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Council Bluffs that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 60,297
Ground reports 3 3 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 13, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Council Bluffs has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 96 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Council Bluffs saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 13, 2026 · Council Bluffs, IA
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
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 12 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: Glenwood (14 miles south, up to 1.25"); Malvern (15 miles south, up to 1.25"); Pacific Junction (18 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Council Bluffs 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
3 reports filed with the NWS
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
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Bellevue — beyond Council Bluffs itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Council Bluffs 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
60,297 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$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
Close just 0.5% of the 60,297 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
June 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $12,662 on top of the $150 plan.
Council Bluffs hail history
Other storms in Council Bluffs.
12 recorded storm days in Council Bluffs, IA
Map unavailable
NEXRAD surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Sep 14, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Aug 4, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Jul 8, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Jul 3, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Jun 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
May 17, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Apr 23, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Apr 3, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Council Bluffs / IA
Mar 5, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 15, 2026.