Tornado Rating unknown
2 ENE Slater Story County
“Several reports from local fire department and spotters of tornado on the ground. (DMX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Story
Hail in Huxley · Apr 23, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 94
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Apr 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Huxley has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 40 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Huxley saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 23, 2026 · Huxley, IA
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
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.
Max size
0.5"
The storm in context
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Huxley's hail record.
This was Huxley's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Apr 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Huxley at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Huxley: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 252 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Ames (11 miles north, up to 1"); Madrid (12 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Johnston (15 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Huxley 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Tornado reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Slater — beyond Huxley itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Huxley 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.
94 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.1M
Potential roof exposure — 94 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
April 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 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 $20 on top of the $150 plan.
Huxley hail history
Other storms in Huxley.
8 recorded storm days in Huxley, IA
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Aug 12, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Jul 20, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Jun 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Apr 15, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Mar 30, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Huxley / IA
Mar 6, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 13, 2026.