Hail in Guthrie Center · Sep 6, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Guthrie Center that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
Convective day · Sep 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 13th most severe storm Guthrie Center 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Guthrie Center 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 Guthrie Center, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 6, 2026 sits in Guthrie Center's hail record.
This was Guthrie Center's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Aug 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Guthrie Center at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Guthrie Center: the same system put hail over 608 other tracked cities, 72 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Bayard (9 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Exira (12 miles southwest, up to 1"); Audubon (13 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Guthrie Center 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Guthrie Center for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Guthrie Center roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Guthrie Center hail history
Other storms in Guthrie Center.
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 23, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface Apr 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 30, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
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