Hail in Emerson Apr 9, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 12th most severe storm Emerson 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Emerson 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.
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 9, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 9, 2026 sits in Emerson's hail record
This was Emerson's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 34 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Emerson at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Emerson: the same system put hail over 161 other tracked cities, 14 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Randolph (9 miles southwest, up to 0"); Shenandoah (14 miles south, up to 0"); Glenwood (16 miles west, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Emerson's Apr 9, 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.
For this storm over Emerson, 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.
What 0" hail means for Emerson 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.
Track hail over Emerson on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Emerson storm history — this Apr 9, 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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12 recorded storm days in Emerson, IA
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Jun 10, 2026
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Jun 5, 2026
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May 31, 2026
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May 18, 2026
1.5"
May 17, 2026
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May 16, 2026
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May 15, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
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Mar 6, 2026
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