Hail in Muscatine Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Muscatine this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft266
0
none filedThe 6th most severe storm Muscatine 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
- 13 /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 Muscatine 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Muscatine, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Muscatine's hail record
This was Muscatine's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Apr 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Muscatine at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Muscatine: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 127 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Illinois City (10 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Conesville (19 miles west, up to 1"); Letts (19 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Muscatine's Apr 15, 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 Muscatine 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 0.5" hail means for Muscatine 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.
$3.2M
Potential roof exposure — 266 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Muscatine on the live map
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13 recorded storm days in Muscatine, IA
Other storms in Muscatine
Jul 3, 2026
2"
Jul 2, 2026
1"
Jun 11, 2026
0.5"
Jun 10, 2026
0.5"
Jun 5, 2026
May 15, 2026
1"
Apr 17, 2026
0.75"Apr 14, 2026
0.5"
Apr 2, 2026
1.25"
Mar 31, 2026
1.5"
Mar 30, 2026
1"Mar 26, 2026