Hail size 1"
2 NW Iowa City Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Iowa City Apr 14, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Iowa City this day.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
113
Ground reports
5
5 hailThe 6th most severe storm Iowa City has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.0 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 41 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Iowa City 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Iowa City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Iowa City's hail record
This was Iowa City's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Apr 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Iowa City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Iowa City: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 143 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Cedar Rapids (21 miles north, up to 1"); Marion (21 miles north, up to 1"); Fairfax (21 miles northwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Iowa City's Apr 14, 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.
Hail reports
5 reports Hail size 1.5"
Iowa City Johnson County
“Time estimated from radar. (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 NNE Iowa City Johnson County
“(DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
1 W Iowa City Johnson County
“(DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
1 NE University Heights Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from University Heights — beyond Iowa City itself.
What 0.5" hail means for Iowa City 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$1.4M
Potential roof exposure — 113 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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.
Track hail over Iowa City on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Iowa City storm history — this Apr 14, 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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Iowa City hail history
← All hail in Iowa City 10 recorded storm days in Iowa City, IA
Other storms in Iowa City
Jul 8, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 17, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Apr 2, 2026
3" Signatures 3" Estimated 1.25"
2
ground reports 
Mar 31, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 15, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
10
ground reports
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.