Tornado Rating unknown
3 E Carthage Hancock County
“Multiple chasers and spotter reported a brief tornado in this approximate location. No damage was found... so the tornado will be rated an EF-U. (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Carthage Jun 11, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Carthage this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
4,031
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 tornadoThe 2nd most severe storm Carthage 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.
4.4 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 72 /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 Carthage 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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 11, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Carthage, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 11, 2026 sits in Carthage's hail record
This was Carthage's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Carthage at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Carthage: the same system put hail over 648 other tracked cities, 157 of them in Illinois. Nearest: La Harpe (6 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Hamilton (11 miles west, up to 1"); Basco (12 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Carthage's Jun 11, 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
1 report Hail size 1"
2 NNE Elvaston Hancock County
“(DVN)”
— 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 21 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Elvaston — beyond Carthage itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Carthage 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
$48M
Potential roof exposure — 4,031 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
20 jobs
Illustrative work
~$300K
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 Carthage on the live map
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Carthage hail history
← All hail in Carthage 10 recorded storm days in Carthage, IL
Other storms in Carthage
Jul 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 17, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 27, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
3.25" Signatures 3.25" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
Apr 13, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 26, 2026
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.