Tornado Rating unknown
3 N Pecatonica Winnebago County
“Video shows possible brief tornado north of Pecatonica. No known damage. Relayed via social media. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Davis Apr 17, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 21 hail signatures up to 3.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 3.25" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
3.25"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
683
Ground reports
5
4 hail · 1 tornadoThe most severe storm Davis 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.
7.8 /10
- Hail size
- 81 /100
- Homes exposed
- 57 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Davis 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
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.
Max size
3.25"
Detections
21
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
1.5"
Where Apr 17, 2026 sits in Davis's hail record
This was Davis's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Apr 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Davis at 3.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Davis: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 101 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Durand (5 miles east, up to 2.5"); Dakota (8 miles west, up to 3.25"); Rock City (9 miles northwest, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Davis's Apr 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.
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
4 reports Hail size 2"
2 NNE Davis Stephenson County
“(DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
2 NNW Pecatonica Winnebago County
“Photo shows hail estimated as approximately 2 inches in diameter near Pecatonica. Location estimated... relayed by broadcast media. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.25"
2 NE Lake Summerset Winnebago County
“Time estimated by radar. Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 SW Durand Winnebago County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 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 Pecatonica, Lake Summerset, and Durand — beyond Davis itself.
What 3.25" hail means for Davis 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
$8.2M
Potential roof exposure — 683 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K
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 Davis on the live map
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Davis hail history
← All hail in Davis 5 recorded storm days in Davis, IL
Other storms in Davis
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.