Hail size 1"
1 SE Ryan Delaware County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Manchester Apr 14, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Manchester this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
7,615
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Manchester 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.
4.3 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 78 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Manchester saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Manchester, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Manchester's hail record
This was Manchester's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Manchester at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Manchester: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 143 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Masonville (8 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Earlville (8 miles northeast, up to 1"); Delhi (8 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Manchester'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
2 reports Hail size 1"
3 SW Delhi Delaware County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 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
Hail was reported over 11 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Ryan and Delhi — beyond Manchester itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Manchester roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$91M
Potential roof exposure — 7,615 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
38 jobs
Illustrative work
~$570K
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 Manchester on the live map
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Manchester hail history
← All hail in Manchester 7 recorded storm days in Manchester, IA
Other storms in Manchester
Jul 2, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 28, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 15, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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.