Hail in Winterset Jul 4, 2026
Hit 30 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft45
0
none filedThe 12th most severe storm Winterset 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 33 /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 Winterset saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Winterset's hail record
This was Winterset's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Winterset at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Winterset: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 57 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Guthrie Center (32 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Bayard (40 miles northwest, up to 1"); Atlantic (48 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Winterset's Jul 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.
For this storm over Winterset, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 0.5" hail means for Winterset 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.
$540K
Potential roof exposure — 45 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Winterset on the live map
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13 recorded storm days in Winterset, IA
Other storms in Winterset
Jul 27, 2026
0.75"
Jul 20, 2026
1.25"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jun 11, 2026
1.5"
Jun 10, 2026
1.25"
Jun 5, 2026
May 18, 2026
1.25"
May 15, 2026
1"
Apr 23, 2026
1"
Apr 17, 2026
1.25"
Apr 15, 2026
1.5"
Apr 14, 2026
0.75"