Tornado Rating unknown
Weldon Decatur County
“Tree on house with power lines down. (DMX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Weldon Apr 23, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
2
2 tornadoThe 4th most severe storm Weldon 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.
2.5 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Weldon 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
1"
Detections
0
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 23, 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 23, 2026 sits in Weldon's hail record
This was Weldon's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Weldon at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Weldon: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 252 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Osceola (10 miles west, up to 1"); Leon (12 miles southwest, up to 0"); Grand River (17 miles southwest, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Weldon's Apr 23, 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.
Tornado reports
2 reports Tornado Rating unknown
1 E Weldon Clarke County
“Metal Roof blown off just E of Weldon. (DMX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
What 1" hail means for Weldon 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.
Track hail over Weldon on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Weldon storm history — this Apr 23, 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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Weldon hail history
← All hail in Weldon 5 recorded storm days in Weldon, IA
Other storms in Weldon
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 2, 2026.