Hail in La Motte Jul 3, 2026
Hit 31 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 14 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature612
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm La Motte 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
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 56 /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 La Motte saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in La Motte's hail record
This was La Motte's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 71 days after the Apr 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over La Motte at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than La Motte: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 182 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Bellevue (5 miles east, up to 2.75"); Zwingle (5 miles west, up to 1.75"); Maquoketa (7 miles south, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from La Motte's Jul 3, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over La Motte 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.
What 2.5" hail means for La Motte roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$7.3M
Potential roof exposure — 612 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over La Motte on the live map
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6 recorded storm days in La Motte, IA
Other storms in La Motte
Jul 9, 2026
1"
Apr 23, 2026
1"
Apr 17, 2026
2.75"
Apr 14, 2026
0.75"
Mar 10, 2026
1.25"