Hail in Pawnee Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 4 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature53
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Pawnee 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 35 /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 Pawnee saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
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 Pawnee's hail record
This was Pawnee's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pawnee at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pawnee: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 58 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Taylorville (5 miles east, up to 1"); Palmer (9 miles southeast, up to 1"); Springfield (14 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Pawnee'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 Pawnee, 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 1" hail means for Pawnee roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
$636K
Potential roof exposure — 53 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Pawnee on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Pawnee, IL
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