Hail in Pleasant Hill · May 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Pleasant Hill that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Pleasant Hill has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 81 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Pleasant Hill 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Pleasant Hill, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 18, 2026 sits in Pleasant Hill's hail record.
This was Pleasant Hill's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pleasant Hill at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pleasant Hill: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 102 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Bondurant (7 miles north, up to 0.75"); Carlisle (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Ankeny (9 miles northwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Pleasant Hill storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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 Pleasant Hill. 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 0.5" hail means for Pleasant Hill roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$140M
Potential roof exposure — 11,660 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 58 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$870K
Close just 0.5% of the 11,660 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
May 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $2,449 on top of the $150 plan.
Pleasant Hill hail history
Other storms in Pleasant Hill.
Estimated-size surface Sep 8, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
1.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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