Hail size 1"
2 S Hanover Park DuPage County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Bartlett Apr 14, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bartlett this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
28,172
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe 3rd most severe storm Bartlett 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.
4.2 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 89 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Bartlett 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 hail size
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.
Max size
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bartlett, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Bartlett's hail record
This was Bartlett's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bartlett at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bartlett: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Illinois. Nearest: South Elgin (5 miles west, up to 1"); West Chicago (7 miles south, up to 1"); Hoffman Estates (9 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Bartlett's Apr 14, 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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 1"
3 NW Carol Stream DuPage County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Hanover Park and Carol Stream — beyond Bartlett itself.
What 1" hail means for Bartlett 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$338M
Potential roof exposure — 28,172 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
141 jobs
Illustrative work
~$2.1M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Bartlett on the live map
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Bartlett hail history
← All hail in Bartlett 6 recorded storm days in Bartlett, IL
Other storms in Bartlett
Jul 27, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
Jul 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1
ground report 
May 4, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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 3, 2026.