Hail in Edgewood · Sep 20, 2026
Convective day · Sep 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Edgewood 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
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 43 /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 Edgewood 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Edgewood, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 20, 2026 sits in Edgewood's hail record.
This was Edgewood's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Sep 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Edgewood at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Edgewood: the same system put hail over 253 other tracked cities, 14 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Mason (5 miles east, up to 0.75"); Altamont (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Ingraham (18 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Edgewood 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Edgewood. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Near the severe threshold
What 0.75" hail means for Edgewood roofs.
A signal this size sits near the National Weather Service severe threshold. Aging shingles and soft metals such as vents, flashing, and gutters may be more vulnerable; roof age, wind, and material condition all matter, and only an inspection can confirm damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$1.6M
Potential roof exposure — 133 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 133 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $28 on top of the $150 plan.
Edgewood hail history
Other storms in Edgewood.
Estimated-size surface Sep 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 21, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 16, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface May 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Feb 19, 2026
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