“EF3... peak wind speed 155 mph... path length 11.2 miles... path width 930 yards. The tornado developed just east of the Illinois River... mainly damaging trees as it t (ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Washburn · Jun 11, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Washburn that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
Convective day · Jun 11, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Washburn 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 57 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Washburn saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 11, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Washburn, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 11, 2026 sits in Washburn's hail record.
This was Washburn's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 38 days after the May 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Washburn at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Washburn: the same system put hail over 648 other tracked cities, 157 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Varna (7 miles north, up to 2"); Toluca (10 miles northeast, up to 2"); Chillicothe (10 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Washburn 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.
Tornado reports
2 reports“Social media photos showing large tornado in progress. (ILX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Rome and Low Point — beyond Washburn itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Washburn 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
$8.8M
Potential roof exposure — 736 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 4 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$60K
Close just 0.5% of the 736 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
June 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 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 $155 on top of the $150 plan.
Washburn hail history
Other storms in Washburn.
Estimated-size surface Sep 15, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 4, 2026
Estimated-size surface Apr 2, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 31, 2026
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