Hail in Mount Sterling Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · the largest NEXRAD radar signature28
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Mount Sterling 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 29 /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 Mount Sterling 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 15, 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 15, 2026 sits in Mount Sterling's hail record
This was Mount Sterling's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Mar 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mount Sterling at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mount Sterling: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 58 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Rushville (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Browning (19 miles east, up to 1"); Vermont (23 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Mount Sterling's Mar 15, 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.
For this storm over Mount Sterling, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 0.5" hail means for Mount Sterling roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$336K
Potential roof exposure — 28 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Mount Sterling on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Mount Sterling, IL
Other storms in Mount Sterling
Jun 11, 2026
0.5"
May 16, 2026
1.5"
May 4, 2026
1.75"
Apr 27, 2026
0.5"
Apr 17, 2026
1"
Mar 3, 2026
0.5"