Wind gust 61 mph
6 S Arrowsmith McLean County
“(ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · McLean
Hail in Farmer City · Aug 13, 2026
Hit 30 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Farmer City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 13, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Farmer City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 1.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 6 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Farmer City saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 13, 2026 · Farmer City, IL
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 13, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Farmer City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 13, 2026 sits in Farmer City's hail record.
This was Farmer City's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Aug 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Farmer City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Farmer City: the same system put hail over 437 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Bellflower (5 miles east, up to 0.5"); Mansfield (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Saybrook (9 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Farmer City 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Wind reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Arrowsmith — beyond Farmer City itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Farmer City 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
1 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$12K
Potential roof exposure — 1 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $0 on top of the $150 plan.
Farmer City hail history
Other storms in Farmer City.
4 recorded storm days in Farmer City, IL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Farmer City / IL
Aug 11, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Farmer City / IL
Apr 27, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Farmer City / IL
Mar 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 14, 2026.