Hail in Weldon · Sep 19, 2026
Convective day · Sep 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Weldon has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Weldon 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.
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Weldon, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 19, 2026 sits in Weldon's hail record.
This was Weldon's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 46 days after the Aug 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Weldon at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Weldon: the same system put hail over 336 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Davis City (21 miles south, up to 0.75"); Kellerton (21 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Afton (22 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Weldon storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
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 Weldon. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Weldon roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Weldon hail history
Other storms in Weldon.
Estimated-size surface Aug 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Apr 23, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
0.75"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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