Hail in Lost Nation Jun 28, 2026
Hit 36 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 8 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature268
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Lost Nation 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
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 49 /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 Lost Nation 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 Jun 28, 2026 sits in Lost Nation's hail record
This was Lost Nation's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jun 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lost Nation at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lost Nation: the same system put hail over 348 other tracked cities, 111 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Oxford Junction (9 miles northwest, up to 2.25"); Delmar (12 miles northeast, up to 3.5"); De Witt (13 miles east, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Lost Nation's Jun 28, 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 Lost Nation, 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 2.25" hail means for Lost Nation 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.
$3.2M
Potential roof exposure — 268 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Lost Nation on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Lost Nation, IA
Other storms in Lost Nation
Jul 3, 2026
1.75"
Jun 11, 2026
0.5"
Apr 15, 2026
0.5"
Apr 2, 2026
2.5"