Hail size 1.25"
5 SW Plainfield Kendall County
“Relayed via amateur radio. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Minooka Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Minooka this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
5,188
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe 3rd most severe storm Minooka 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.
3.5 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 74 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Minooka 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
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
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Minooka, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Minooka's hail record
This was Minooka's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Minooka at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Minooka: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Plainfield (7 miles north, up to 1.25"); Shorewood (8 miles east, up to 0.5"); Yorkville (11 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Minooka's Mar 10, 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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 1"
1 W Plattville Kendall County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Plainfield and Plattville — beyond Minooka itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Minooka roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$62M
Potential roof exposure — 5,188 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
26 jobs
Illustrative work
~$390K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Minooka on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Minooka storm history — this Mar 10, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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Minooka hail history
← All hail in Minooka 4 recorded storm days in Minooka, IL
Other storms in Minooka
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.