Hail in Estherville · Sep 6, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Estherville that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Estherville 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 63 /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 Estherville saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 6, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Estherville, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 6, 2026 sits in Estherville's hail record.
This was Estherville's 16th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Sep 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Estherville at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Estherville: the same system put hail over 608 other tracked cities, 72 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Wallingford (9 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Spirit Lake (13 miles west, up to 0.5"); Dickens (17 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 16 Estherville 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Estherville. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Estherville 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.
Potential roof exposure
$17M
Potential roof exposure — 1,431 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 7 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$105K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,431 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $301 on top of the $150 plan.
Estherville hail history
Other storms in Estherville.
Estimated-size surface Sep 2, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 9, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 8, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 3, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 29, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 13, 2026
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