Hail size 1"
1 NE Huntley McHenry County
“(LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · McHenry
Hail in Lake In The Hills · Apr 14, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lake In The Hills that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0.75" ≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 41,423
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Apr 14, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Lake In The Hills has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.7 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.7 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 92 /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 Lake In The Hills saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 14, 2026 · Lake In The Hills, IL
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lake In The Hills, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Lake In The Hills's hail record.
This was Lake In The Hills's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Mar 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake In The Hills at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake In The Hills: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Dundee (7 miles south, up to 0.75"); Barrington (10 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Hampshire (10 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Lake In The Hills 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.
Hail 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 Huntley — beyond Lake In The Hills itself.
Near the severe threshold
What 0.75" hail means for Lake In The Hills 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.
41,423 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$497M
Potential roof exposure — 41,423 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 207 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$3.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 41,423 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
April 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $8,699 on top of the $150 plan.
Lake In The Hills hail history
Other storms in Lake In The Hills.
8 recorded storm days in Lake In The Hills, IL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Jul 27, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Jul 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Jun 24, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
3 ground reports Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Apr 17, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Mar 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lake In The Hills / IL
Mar 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
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 3, 2026.