Hail in Casey · Jul 4, 2026
Convective day · Jul 4, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Casey 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
- 0 /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 Casey saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
The storm in context
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Casey's hail record.
This was Casey's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jun 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Casey at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Casey: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 146 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Martinsville (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Annapolis (13 miles southeast, up to 1"); West York (13 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Casey 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Casey. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Casey 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
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Feb 19, 2026
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