Hail size 2"
2 SE Niantic Macon County
“(ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Mount Auburn Jun 17, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mount Auburn this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.75"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
2,148
Ground reports
5
5 hailThe most severe storm Mount Auburn 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.
7.0 /10
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 67 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Mount Auburn saw the hail — from two instruments
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
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
2.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mount Auburn, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 17, 2026 sits in Mount Auburn's hail record
This was Mount Auburn's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 51 days after the Apr 27, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mount Auburn at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mount Auburn: the same system put hail over 294 other tracked cities, 134 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Illiopolis (4 miles northwest, up to 2.5"); Blue Mound (7 miles south, up to 2"); Edinburg (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Mount Auburn's Jun 17, 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
5 reports Hail size 1.75"
Illiopolis Sangamon County
“Corrects previous hail report from Illiopolis. Golf Ball size hail. Time estimated from radar. (ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
Illiopolis Sangamon County
“Golf Ball size hail. (ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 W Illiopolis Sangamon County
“Corrects previous hail report from 1 W Illiopolis. Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). Time estimated from radar. (ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 W Illiopolis Sangamon County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (ILX)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 15 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Niantic and Illiopolis — beyond Mount Auburn itself.
What 2.75" hail means for Mount Auburn roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$26M
Potential roof exposure — 2,148 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
11 jobs
Illustrative work
~$165K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Mount Auburn on the live map
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Mount Auburn hail history
← All hail in Mount Auburn 3 recorded storm days in Mount Auburn, IL
Other storms in Mount Auburn
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 2, 2026.