Tornado Rating unknown
1 E Palos Heights Cook County
“NWS survey confirmed a preliminary EF-0 tornado. Path length of 2.5 miles... max width of 175 yards... and peak winds of 80 mph. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Palos Hills Jun 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Palos Hills this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
5,017
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe 4th most severe storm Palos Hills 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.
3.1 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /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 Palos Hills 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
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Palos Hills, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 10, 2026 sits in Palos Hills's hail record
This was Palos Hills's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 72 days after the Mar 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Palos Hills at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Palos Hills: the same system put hail over 777 other tracked cities, 81 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Orland Park (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Lemont (10 miles west, up to 1"); Downers Grove (12 miles northwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Palos Hills's Jun 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.
Tornado reports
1 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 Palos Heights — beyond Palos Hills itself.
What 0.5" hail means for Palos Hills 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$60M
Potential roof exposure — 5,017 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
25 jobs
Illustrative work
~$375K
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 Palos Hills on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Palos Hills storm history — this Jun 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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Palos Hills hail history
← All hail in Palos Hills 4 recorded storm days in Palos Hills, IL
Other storms in Palos Hills
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.