Hail in Pleasant Plains · Aug 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Pleasant Plains that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Pleasant Plains has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 76 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Pleasant Plains 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Pleasant Plains, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 21, 2026 sits in Pleasant Plains's hail record.
This was Pleasant Plains's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 71 days after the Jun 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pleasant Plains at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pleasant Plains: the same system put hail over 659 other tracked cities, 93 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Springfield (11 miles east, up to 1"); Petersburg (11 miles north, up to 1"); New Berlin (11 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Pleasant Plains storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
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 Pleasant Plains, 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Pleasant Plains roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$76M
Potential roof exposure — 6,323 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 32 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$480K
Close just 0.5% of the 6,323 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $1,328 on top of the $150 plan.
Pleasant Plains hail history
Other storms in Pleasant Plains.
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 4, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 26, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 3, 2026
1"Take your next area into the field.
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