Storm report · Douglas

Hail in Arthur Jun 17, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Arthur this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

3"

≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

4,221

Ground reports

4

4 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Arthur 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.

7.3 /10
Hail size
75 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
73 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
67 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Arthur 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Arthur, IL on Jun 17, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 3"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Arthur, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 17, 2026 sits in Arthur's hail record

This was Arthur's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 44 days after the May 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Arthur at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Arthur: the same system put hail over 294 other tracked cities, 134 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Arcola (5 miles east, up to 1.5"); Humboldt (7 miles south, up to 3"); Hammond (15 miles northwest, up to 2.25").

These maps are stills from Arthur's Jun 17, 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.

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.

Hail reports

4 reports
Hail size 2"
Chesterville Douglas County

“(ILX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
1 SE Arthur Douglas County

“(ILX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
Arthur Douglas County

“(ILX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
3 N Cadwell Moultrie County

“Photo of 3 inch diameter jagged hailstone with ruler along with corn damaged from the large hail on farmland between Lovington and Arthur. (ILX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Hail was reported over 17 minutes, from to .

Reports came from Chesterville and Cadwell — beyond Arthur itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 3" hail means for Arthur roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$51M

Potential roof exposure — 4,221 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
21 jobs
Illustrative work
~$315K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,221 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Arthur on the live map

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Arthur hail history

3 recorded storm days in Arthur, IL

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Other storms in Arthur

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.