Hail size 2"
3 SSE Cedar Rapids Linn County
“Hail sizes between 1 to 2 inches in diameter. Time estimated by radar. (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Ely Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ely this day.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,489
Ground reports
5
5 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Ely 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.
3.6 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 63 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Ely 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-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Ely, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Ely's hail record
This was Ely's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ely at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ely: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Cedar Rapids (7 miles north, up to 0.5"); Solon (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Iowa City (14 miles south, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Ely's Mar 10, 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
5 reports Hail size 1"
4 NE Cedar Rapids Munic Linn County
“(DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 NE Cedar Rapids Munic Linn County
“(DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
3 NE Cedar Rapids Munic Linn County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 ENE Cedar Rapids Muni Linn County
“Occurring right now. (DVN)”
— 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 Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids Munic, and Cedar Rapids Muni — beyond Ely itself.
What 0.5" hail means for Ely 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$18M
Potential roof exposure — 1,489 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
7 jobs
Illustrative work
~$105K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Ely on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Ely storm history — this Mar 10, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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Ely hail history
← All hail in Ely 2 recorded storm days in Ely, IA
Other storms in Ely
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 2, 2026.