Hail in Pleasant Hill · Sep 8, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.75" 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 · Sep 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 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
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 88 /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 Sep 8, 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 Sep 8, 2026 sits in Pleasant Hill's hail record.
This was Pleasant Hill's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 50 days after the Jul 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pleasant Hill at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pleasant Hill: the same system put hail over 62 other tracked cities, 35 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Bondurant (7 miles north, up to 2.75"); Carlisle (7 miles south, up to 1.5"); Des Moines (8 miles west, up to 1.75").
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Pleasant Hill 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.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Pleasant Hill roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$299M
Potential roof exposure — 24,897 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 124 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.9M
Close just 0.5% of the 24,897 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $5,228 on top of the $150 plan.
Pleasant Hill hail history
Other storms in Pleasant Hill.
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 May 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
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