Wind gust 58 mph
4 NW Hepburn Page County
“Delayed report of a personal weather station measured wind gust of 58 mph as a thunderstorm passed through. (OAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Villisca Apr 9, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
Largest hailstone
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 9th most severe storm Villisca 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.
0.2 /10
- Hail size
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Villisca 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
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
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 9, 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 9, 2026 sits in Villisca's hail record
This was Villisca's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 34 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Villisca at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Villisca: the same system put hail over 161 other tracked cities, 14 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Clarinda (7 miles south, up to 0"); Essex (10 miles southwest, up to 0"); Emerson (20 miles west, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Villisca's Apr 9, 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.
Wind 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 Hepburn — beyond Villisca itself.
What 0" hail means for Villisca 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 Villisca on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Villisca storm history — this Apr 9, 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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Villisca hail history
← All hail in Villisca 11 recorded storm days in Villisca, IA
Other storms in Villisca
Jul 20, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 10, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
5
ground reports 
May 18, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 16, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.75"
3
ground reports 
May 15, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
2
ground reports 
Apr 25, 2026
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 14, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 5, 2026
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.