Hail size 1.5"
1 NE Rochester Cedar County
“(DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Tipton Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Tipton this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
929
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 3rd most severe storm Tipton 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.
3.6 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 59 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Tipton 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Tipton, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Tipton's hail record
This was Tipton's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Tipton at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Tipton: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Iowa. Nearest: West Branch (6 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Solon (13 miles west, up to 0.5"); West Liberty (14 miles south, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Tipton's Mar 10, 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.
Hail reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Rochester — beyond Tipton itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Tipton roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$11M
Potential roof exposure — 929 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Tipton on the live map
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Tipton hail history
← All hail in Tipton 7 recorded storm days in Tipton, IA
Other storms in Tipton
Jul 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 11, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
2
ground reports 
Mar 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 15, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.