Hail in Rolfe Apr 22, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 2 hail signatures up to 0.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · the largest NEXRAD radar signature33
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Rolfe 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
- 31 /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 Rolfe 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.
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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 22, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 22, 2026 sits in Rolfe's hail record
This was Rolfe's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rolfe at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rolfe: the same system put hail over 152 other tracked cities, 8 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Albert City (20 miles west, up to 1"); Fonda (25 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Fenton (28 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Rolfe's Apr 22, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Rolfe. 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.
What 0.5" hail means for Rolfe 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.
$396K
Potential roof exposure — 33 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Rolfe on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Rolfe, IA
