Hail in Annawan · Mar 6, 2026
Convective day · Mar 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Annawan 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
- 32 /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 Annawan 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 signature field 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 Mar 6, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 6, 2026 sits in Annawan's hail record.
This was Annawan's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Annawan at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Annawan: the same system put hail over 486 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Galva (23 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Delavan (78 miles south, up to 0.5"); Lomax (80 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Annawan 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 Annawan. 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 Annawan 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$444K
Potential roof exposure — 37 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $8 on top of the $150 plan.
Annawan hail history
Other storms in Annawan.
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 30, 2026
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