Hail in Forest City Jul 26, 2026
Hit 8 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature49
0
none filedThe 4th most severe storm Forest City 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
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 34 /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 Forest City 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 Jul 26, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Forest City's hail record
This was Forest City's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Jul 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Forest City at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Forest City: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 12 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Joice (0 miles north, up to 0.75"); Hampton (38 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Geneva (46 miles southeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Forest City's Jul 26, 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 Forest City, 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 0.75" hail means for Forest City roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
$588K
Potential roof exposure — 49 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Forest City on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Forest City, IA
Other storms in Forest City
Jul 8, 2026
1"
Jul 2, 2026
1.75"
May 17, 2026
1"
May 15, 2026
1"