Hail in Palmer Mar 22, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 2 hail signatures 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 signature67
0
none filedThe 7th most severe storm Palmer 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
- 37 /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 Palmer 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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 22, 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 22, 2026 sits in Palmer's hail record
This was Palmer's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Palmer at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Palmer: the same system put hail over 409 other tracked cities, 49 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Pana (16 miles east, up to 0.5"); Fillmore (21 miles south, up to 1"); Ramsey (23 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Palmer's Mar 22, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Palmer for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.5" hail means for Palmer 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.
$804K
Potential roof exposure — 67 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Palmer on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Palmer, IL
Other storms in Palmer
Jul 9, 2026
1"
Jun 17, 2026
1"
Jun 11, 2026
0.75"
Apr 27, 2026
0.75"
Mar 26, 2026
1"
Mar 15, 2026
1"