Hail size 1"
4 E Fisher Champaign County
“Quarter size hail in Dewey IL. (ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Rantoul Mar 26, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 1 hail signature up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
14
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Rantoul 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.
2.0 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 24 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Rantoul 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
0.75"
Detections
1
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"
Where Mar 26, 2026 sits in Rantoul's hail record
This was Rantoul's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Rantoul at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Rantoul: the same system put hail over 316 other tracked cities, 103 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Ludlow (9 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Foosland (13 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Urbana (14 miles south, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Rantoul's Mar 26, 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 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 Fisher — beyond Rantoul itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Rantoul roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$168K
Potential roof exposure — 14 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage. Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Rantoul on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Rantoul storm history — this Mar 26, 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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Rantoul hail history
← All hail in Rantoul 4 recorded storm days in Rantoul, IL
Other storms in Rantoul
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.