Tornado Rating unknown
1 E Valley City Harrison County
“NWS survey confirmed an 85 mph EF0 tornado occurred with a width of 100 yards and length of 0.85 miles. (LMK)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Central Jun 21, 2026
Hit 43 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Central this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,220
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe most severe storm Central 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.
3.2 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 62 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Central 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.
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
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Central, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Central's hail record
This was Central's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 33 days after the May 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Central at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Central: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 22 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Battletown (8 miles west, up to 0.75"); Elizabeth (13 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Cannelton (16 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Central's Jun 21, 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.
Tornado 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 Valley City — beyond Central itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Central 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
$15M
Potential roof exposure — 1,220 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
6 jobs
Illustrative work
~$90K
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.
Track hail over Central on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Central storm history — this Jun 21, 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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Central hail history
← All hail in Central 4 recorded storm days in Central, IN
Other storms in Central
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 2, 2026.