Storm report · Johnson

Hail in North Liberty Jul 8, 2026

Hit 26 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm North Liberty 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.

0.0 /10
Hail size
0 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How North Liberty 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over North Liberty, IA on Jul 8, 2026

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over North Liberty, IA on Jul 8, 2026

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"
The storm in context

Where Jul 8, 2026 sits in North Liberty's hail record

This was North Liberty's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over North Liberty at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than North Liberty: the same system put hail over 908 other tracked cities, 105 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Iowa City (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Ackley (90 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Iowa Falls (97 miles northwest, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from North Liberty's Jul 8, 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.

Ground reports

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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over North Liberty. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Below the severe threshold

What 0" hail means for North Liberty 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.

Track hail over North Liberty on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full North Liberty storm history — this Jul 8, 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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North Liberty hail history

2 recorded storm days in North Liberty, IA

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Other storms in North Liberty

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.