Hail in Highland Park Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Highland Park this day.
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft29,919
0
none filedThe most severe storm Highland Park has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 90 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Highland Park saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Highland Park, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Highland Park's hail record
This was Highland Park's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Highland Park at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Highland Park: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 130 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Lincolnshire (5 miles west, up to 1.5"); Glencoe (5 miles east, up to 1.25"); Lake Forest (6 miles northwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Highland Park's Jul 27, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Highland Park for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 1.25" hail means for Highland Park 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.
$359M
Potential roof exposure — 29,919 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Highland Park on the live map
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4 recorded storm days in Highland Park, IL
