Storm report · Lake

Hail in Libertyville Jul 27, 2026

Hit 7 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Libertyville this day.

Largest hailstone

1.5"

≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

62,713

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The most severe storm Libertyville has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

4.6 /10
Hail size
38 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
96 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Libertyville 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Libertyville, IL on Jul 27, 2026

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 1.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Libertyville, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Libertyville's hail record

This was Libertyville's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 52 days after the Jun 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Libertyville at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Libertyville: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 130 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Lake Forest (4 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Waukegan (7 miles north, up to 1.5"); Lake Zurich (7 miles south, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Libertyville'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.

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 Libertyville. 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.

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.5" hail means for Libertyville roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$753M

Potential roof exposure — 62,713 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
314 jobs
Illustrative work
~$4.7M
Close just 0.5% of the 62,713 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Libertyville on the live map

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Libertyville hail history

3 recorded storm days in Libertyville, IL

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Other storms in Libertyville

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 surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.