Hail size 1.25"
4 W Shorewood Kendall County
“Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Shorewood Jul 27, 2026
Hit 7 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.75" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
25,360
Ground reports
6
6 hailThe most severe storm Shorewood 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.
6.3 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 88 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Shorewood saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1.75"
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Shorewood's hail record
This was Shorewood's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Shorewood at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Shorewood: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 130 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Joliet (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Channahon (7 miles south, up to 1.5"); Minooka (8 miles west, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Shorewood'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
6 reports Hail size 3"
2 WSW Shorewood Will County
“Photo shows hail stone at least 3 inches in diameter that fell near Four Seasons Park in Shorewood. Hail stone was collected and frozen 2 minutes after it fell. Multipl (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.25"
2 N Shorewood Will County
“Relayed via mping. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 SW Crystal Lawns Will County
“Relayed via mping. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 SE Minooka Will County
“Public report of hen egg size hail near Minooka. Time estimated by radar. Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
1 S Shorewood Will County
“(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 Crystal Lawns and Minooka — beyond Shorewood itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Shorewood roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$304M
Potential roof exposure — 25,360 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
127 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.9M
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 Shorewood on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Shorewood storm history — this Jul 27, 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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Shorewood hail history
← All hail in Shorewood 6 recorded storm days in Shorewood, IL
Other storms in Shorewood
Jul 3, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 31, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
2
ground reports 
Mar 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.