Hail size 1"
1 NW Oak Lawn Cook County
“Relayed via mping. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Bridgeview Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bridgeview this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.75"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
89,180
Ground reports
3
1 hail · 2 windThe most severe storm Bridgeview 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.
7.4 /10
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 99 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Bridgeview 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
2.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bridgeview, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Bridgeview's hail record
This was Bridgeview's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bridgeview at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bridgeview: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 130 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Palos Hills (0 miles north, up to 2.75"); Willow Springs (5 miles west, up to 4"); Tinley Park (7 miles south, up to 3").
These maps are stills from Bridgeview's Jul 27, 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
1 reportWind reports
2 reports Wind gust 66 mph
1 S Palos Park Cook County
“Private weather station KILPALOS2 reported 66 mph gust. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 74 mph
3.0 SW Midway Airport Cook County
“Also observed nickel sized hail and 2.83 inches of rainfall. (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
Hail was reported over 11 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Oak Lawn, Palos Park, and Midway Airport — beyond Bridgeview itself.
What 2.75" hail means for Bridgeview 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
$1.1B
Potential roof exposure — 89,180 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
446 jobs
Illustrative work
~$6.7M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Bridgeview on the live map
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Bridgeview hail history
← All hail in Bridgeview 2 recorded storm days in Bridgeview, IL
Other storms in Bridgeview
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 1, 2026.