Hail in Wapello May 4, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 6 hail signatures up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature54
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Wapello 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
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 35 /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 Wapello saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for May 4, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 4, 2026 sits in Wapello's hail record
This was Wapello's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wapello at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wapello: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 19 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Morning Sun (7 miles south, up to 1"); Winfield (10 miles southwest, up to 1"); New Boston (13 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Wapello's May 4, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Wapello 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.
What 0.75" hail means for Wapello roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
$648K
Potential roof exposure — 54 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Wapello on the live map
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8 recorded storm days in Wapello, IA
Other storms in Wapello
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jun 11, 2026
0.75"
May 15, 2026
1"
Apr 17, 2026
0.75"
Apr 2, 2026
1.25"
Mar 10, 2026
1.25"
Mar 5, 2026
1"