Hail in Lake In The Hills Mar 31, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 10 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature7,505
0
none filedThe 4th most severe storm Lake In The Hills 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 78 /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 Lake In The Hills 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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 31, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 31, 2026 sits in Lake In The Hills's hail record
This was Lake In The Hills's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Mar 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake In The Hills at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake In The Hills: the same system put hail over 522 other tracked cities, 114 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Maple Park (20 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Harvard (21 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Lake Villa (23 miles northeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Lake In The Hills's Mar 31, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Lake In The Hills. 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.
What 1" hail means for Lake In The Hills 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.
$90M
Potential roof exposure — 7,505 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Lake In The Hills on the live map
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8 recorded storm days in Lake In The Hills, IL
Other storms in Lake In The Hills
Jul 27, 2026
1"
Jul 9, 2026
1"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jun 24, 2026
1.25"
Apr 17, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
0.75"
Mar 30, 2026
1"