Hail size 1"
1 NW Oak Lawn Cook County
“Relayed via mping. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Palos Hills Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Palos Hills 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
89,180
Ground reports
3
1 hail · 2 windThe 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.
7.4 /10
- Hail size
- 69 /100
- Homes exposed
- 99 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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
2.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Palos Hills, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Palos Hills's hail record
This was Palos Hills's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Palos Hills at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Palos Hills: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 130 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Bridgeview (0 miles north, up to 2.75"); Willow Springs (5 miles west, up to 4"); Tinley Park (7 miles south, up to 3").
These maps are stills from Palos Hills's Jul 27, 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
1 reportWind reports
2 reports Wind gust 66 mph
1 S Palos Park Cook County
“Private weather station KILPALOS2 reported 66 mph gust. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 74 mph
3.0 SW Midway Airport Cook County
“Also observed nickel sized hail and 2.83 inches of rainfall. (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
Hail was reported over 11 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Oak Lawn, Palos Park, and Midway Airport — beyond Palos Hills itself.
What 2.75" hail means for Palos Hills 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
$1.1B
Potential roof exposure — 89,180 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
446 jobs
Illustrative work
~$6.7M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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
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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.